But they need to adapt to robotic augmentation.
The daily lab sessions saw the participants focus their robot thumb training on tasks designed to enhance the cooperation between their hand and the Third Thumb, like single-handedly grabbing multiple balls or wine glasses. In so doing, the participants learned the basic gestures needed to use the thumb quickly, with improved motor control, hand-Thumb coordination, and dexterity directly correlated with training.
"Body augmentation could one day be valuable to society in numerous ways, such as enabling a surgeon to get by without an assistant, or a factory worker to work more efficiently," said Paulina Kieliba of the UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, in the embargoed release."This line of work could revolutionize the concept of prosthetics, and it could help someone who permanently or temporarily can only use on hand, to do everything with that hand.
"But to get there, we need to continue researching the complicated, interdisciplinary questions of how these devices interact with our brains," added Kieliba. The team scanned participants' brains via an fMRI before and after the training while users moved their individual fingers, with no robotic Third Thumb attached. Crucially, the fMRI detected subtle but substantial changes to how the hand augmented with a robotic thumb was represented in the brain's sensorimotor cortex.
"Our study is the first one investigating the use of an augmentation device outside of a lab," said Kieliba in the embargoed release."It is the first augmentation study carried over multiple days of prolonged training, and the first to have an untrained comparison group.
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