Since the time of Hippocrates, doctors have looked at patients hands for signs of ill health.
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Our body can adopt a sixth robotic finger, which we can move independently of the other fingers and with tactile sensations.
Hand gestures are notoriously prone to misinterpretation.
Modern life means if you have wrist or hand pain, it’s difficult to rest and repair the damage. Prevention is key.
New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.
Game design engages players through emotional identification and physical participation, and relies heavily on the role of human hands in knowing and navigating the world.
We studied people’s brains while they held tools correctly and incorrectly.
Coroanvirus has ended politics as normal. What will campaigning look like without handshaking, high fives and the kissing of babies?
Running, jumping, tackling, not to mention handling the ball, means Aussie Rules players risk injuries to their hands and wrists serious enough to send them to the emergency department.
Ultra-clear maps of individual toes were found in the brains of two foot painters – these are not found in typically developed humans.
10% of people are left-handed but we still haven’t uncovered how this changes the way their brains work.
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Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience, Ghent University
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Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Monash University
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Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
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Instructor, Department of English, University of Winnipeg
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Iowa
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Lecturer, Curtin University
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Chercheur au Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
