What is it about?

We studied how your brain controls grasping movements when vision is not available, and you remember objects only from actively touching them a few seconds before.

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Why is it important?

It is the first study of this kind in the world. We showed what areas are more sensitive to object features vs. hand movements during grasping of targets never seen before.

Perspectives

I designed it in the scanner when I was getting ready for being a pilot participant in a different project.

Professor (Full) Gregory Kroliczak
Uniwersytet im Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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This page is a summary of: Haptically Guided Grasping. fMRI Shows Right-Hemisphere Parietal Stimulus Encoding, and Bilateral Dorso-Ventral Parietal Gradients of Object- and Action-Related Processing during Grasp Execution, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2016, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00691.
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