A demonstration in which the finger of a blindfolded student wasused to tap the nose of a third student with the blindfoldedstudent’s index finger. At the same time, the first student tappedthe nose of the blindfolded student so that the taps on the twonoses were synchronous. What was the purpose of this demonstration?How did this relate to the phenomenon of “phantom limbs� What isRamachandran’s “mirror box� What does all of this tell us aboutthe permanence, or lack thereof, the brain’s representation of thebody? How does this relate to the discussion of somatovisualneurons in monkey parietal cortex and tool use?
