Brain represents tools as temporary body parts, study confirms
pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vJpJdiVBZq_lTLvmb_2GmVn11ag/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vJpJdiVBZq_lTLvmb_2GmVn11ag/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/
a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vJpJdiVBZq_lTLvmb_2GmVn11ag/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vJpJdiVBZq_lTLvmb_2GmVn11ag/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pResearchers have what they say is the first direct proof of a very old idea: that when we use a tool -- even for just a few minutes -- it changes the way our brain represents the size of our body. In other words, the tool becomes a part of what is known in psychology as our body schema, according to a report published in the June 23 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrainMysteries/~4/Ae1Fqaaq2Zo" height="1" width="1"/