Brain regions which process what you are doing vs. what you think you are doing

Posted by Bayle Shanks at 2:11 AM EST

Daniel Moran, Andrew B. Schwartz, and G. Anthony Reina “…created a virtual reality video game to trick the monkeys into thinking that they were tracing ellipses with their hands, though they actually were moving their hands in a circle.

They monitored nerve cells in the monkeys enabling them to see what areas of the brain represented the circle and which areas represented the ellipse. They found that the primary motor cortex represented the actual movement while the signals from cells in a neighboring area, called the ventral premotor cortex, were generating elliptical shapes.”

http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/print/652.html

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