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What painting with your feet does to your brain

11 September 2019

Using your feet like hands can cause the development of organised "hand-like" maps of the toes in the brain, according to a study of two foot painters led by PhD student Daan Wesselink, Dr Harriet Dempsey-Jones and Dr Tamar Makin (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

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