Somatosensation: Touching the mind's fingers.
Whether mental operations can be reduced to the biological properties of the brain has intrigued scientists and philosophers alike for millennia. New microstimulation experiments on awake, behaving monkeys establish causality between activity of specialized cortical neurons and a controlled behavior.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA. jing@monkeybiz.stanford.edu
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