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失去肢体的人通常会体验到仍然拥有缺失的手臂或腿的感觉。事实上,幻肢现象已经激发了神经科学家们进行一系列独立研究。

但似乎我们所有人都有可能产生这些感觉,即使手臂和腿部完好无损。如果我们能像这样 conjur 出幻肢,这会为哲学家和科学家们提出各种引人入胜的问题,关于究竟是什么构成了我们对物理自我的感知。卡罗林斯卡研究所的研究人员在《认知神经科学杂志》上在线报告称,他们可以在短时间内诱导出幻手的感觉。点击此处观看这个简单的实验


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Gary Stix, senior editor of mind and brain topics at 大众科学, edits and reports on emerging advances that have propelled brain science to the forefront of the biological sciences. Stix has edited or written cover stories, feature articles and news on diverse topics, ranging from what happens in the brain when a person is immersed in thought to the impact of brain implant technology that alleviates mood disorders such as depression. Before taking over the neuroscience beat, Stix, as 大众科学's special projects editor, was responsible for the magazine's annual single-topic special issues, conceiving of and producing issues on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, climate change and nanotechnology. One special issue he oversaw on the topic of time in all of its manifestations won a National Magazine Award. With his wife Miriam Lacob, Stix is co-author of a technology primer called Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed.

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