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Neurocognitive barriers to the embodiment of technology

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The increasing integration of wearable technologies with the human body raises neural and cognitive challenges and opportunities.

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Figure 1: Artificial arms for restoring hand function.
Figure 2: Human augmentation in perception and action.

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This work was supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to T.R.M. (jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society; 104128/Z/14/Z), and by the HFSP RPG00022/2013 and H2020 eNHANCE program grants to A.A.F.

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  1. Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Tamar R. Makin is at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AZ, UK, and at the FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.,

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  2. Frederique de Vignemont is at the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS – ENS – EHESS), Institut des Etudes Cognitives, PSL, Paris 75005, France.,

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  3. A. Aldo Faisal is in the Departments of Bioengineering and of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.,

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Makin, T., de Vignemont, F. & Faisal, A. Neurocognitive barriers to the embodiment of technology. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0014 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-016-0014

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