Sensory Perceptions may Not be Remapped by Prosthetics Limbs by Karishma Abhishek on December 30, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Growing advent of futuristic development of realistic prosthetic/ robotic devices has shown that even after a full year, the bionic touch did not remap the brain in people whose amputated limbs were replaced with prosthetic limbs. The location of the touch sensors on the prosthetic devices and the participants subjective sensation revealed no match, as per the neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published in the journal Cell Reports. The limitation of the nervous system to adapt to different sensory input attributes to the stability of its touch sensations. Development of prosthetic limbs requires qualities of not only being able to be operated with a user s own neural activity, but can to accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.