The Hand and the Brain From Lucy's Thumb to the Thought-Controlled Robotic Hand /

• Main Author: Lundborg, Göran (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Medicine.; Health.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

This book presents the human hand from an overall perspective – from the first appearance of hand-like structures in the fins of big fishes living millions of years ago to today´s and the future’s mind-controlled artificial hands. Much focus is given to the extremely well-developed sensation of the...

Table of Contents:

• Fins, Fossils And Fingers
• The Hand, The Brain And Mans’ Travel In Time
• The Brain, The Tools And The Technique
• How The Hand Created The Languge
• Hand Prints From The Past
• The Intelligent Hand
• An Extension Of The Brain
• Sensation And Emotions
• The Feeling Brain
• How The Hand Shapes The Brain
• The Interaction Between Senses
• Mirrors In The Brain
• Creative Hands
• Right Or Left?
• One Hand Missing
• Hand Transplantation
• The Thought-Controlled Robotic Hand.