People with artificial limbs can come to sense their prosthetic as part of their body — and in a new study, scientists showed that lab mice can also experience this same type of "embodiment." The researchers say that the work could inform the design of better artificial limbs for people in the future.
Through this line of research, "we are bringing a toolkit for … neural engineering in mice [and could] discover new ways to control a prosthesis," said senior study author Luc Estebanez, a researcher who studies sensorimotor integration and plasticity at the Université Paris-Saclay.
