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Hand Function and the Neocortex (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Hand Function and the Neocortex (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Experimental Brain Research Series, 10
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To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his
immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The
monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and
grasps it, handles it delicately with the fingers or more forcibly
with the hand, scans the various surfaces with the fin ger pads,
and finally identifies it. If we compare this monkey's adroitness
and discriminative capacities with our own, at once we have a
concise statement of important biological similarities and
differences among primates. While there are species diffe rences in
the functional anatomy of the hand, in tactile sensibi lity, and in
the control of hand movements, these are relatively minor. The real
difference in the dexterity of the two species relates to the
complexity of the task that is executed: no monkey, and for that
matter only one man in a century, paints a Guernica, although an
astute investigator can readily teach the monkey to flourish a
brush and paint a few strokes. The goal of the symposium, of which
this book is a summary, was to examine current knowledge of those
cortical mecha nisms that determine the sensorimotor functions of
the hand that are common to man and the monkey - mechanisms
accessible to analysis by recording the responses of single
cortical neurons while the monkey explores and manipulates his
surroundings."
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