Neuroscience Daily for 11 July covers 3 neuroscience stories on asian neurotech, handedness transfer, phantom limbs. It is a compact audio briefing on studies, mechanisms, and the discussion around them.
Neuroscience Daily for 11 July follows 3 stories from r/neuro and r/neuroscience, moving through asian neurotech, handedness transfer, phantom limbs.
This story is about a Neurotech Newsletter market map arguing that Asia's neurotechnology industry is developing along very different national paths. The writeup says China is building across implants, focused ultrasound, and consumer EEG with strong state support, while India is pushing lower-cost at-home stimulation and wearables, Japan is staying clinically focused, and South Korea is leaning into imaging and EEG software.
This story from the neuro community is about why writing with a non-dominant hand can produce backward letters, a different handwriting style, and even a strange urge to move the dominant hand at the same time. The post describes a right-handed person who can write a little better with the left hand only when the right hand is tensed as if it were also holding a pen.
This story from the neuro community is about whether people can experience supernumerary phantom limbs, including animal-like tails or ears that never physically existed. The post frames the idea as a real neurological phenomenon rather than a hallucination and wonders whether repeated belief or training could make the brain treat a nonhuman appendage as part of the body.
That's it for today.
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