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Tamar R. Makin
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 93
Citations - 3968
Tamar R. Makin is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sensory system & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 84 publications receiving 3122 citations. Previous affiliations of Tamar R. Makin include Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging & French Institute of Health and Medical Research.
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On the other hand: dummy hands and peripersonal space.
TL;DR: This work focuses on the use of artificial dummy hands as powerful instruments to manipulate the brain's representation of hand position, peripersonal space, and of hand ownership and proposes a simple model that situates the 'rubber hand illusion' in the neurophysiological framework of multisensory hand-centred representations of space.
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Is That Near My Hand? Multisensory Representation of Peripersonal Space in Human Intraparietal Sulcus
TL;DR: It is suggested that, whereas cortical regions within the posterior IPS and LOC represent hand-centered space in a predominantly visual manner, the anterior IPS uses multisensory information in representing perihand space.
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Phantom pain is associated with preserved structure and function in the former hand area
Tamar R. Makin,Jan Scholz,Nicola Filippini,D Henderson Slater,Irene Tracey,Heidi Johansen-Berg +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that contrary to the maladaptive model, cortical plasticity associated with phantom pain is driven by powerful and long-lasting subjective sensory experience, such as triggered by nociceptive or top–down inputs.
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Topographic representation of the human body in the occipitotemporal cortex.
TL;DR: Functional imaging identified a topographically organized body part map within the occipitotemporal cortex (OTC), with distinct clusters of voxels showing clear preference for different visually presented body parts.
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Reassessing cortical reorganization in the primary sensorimotor cortex following arm amputation
Tamar R. Makin,Jan Scholz,D Henderson Slater,D Henderson Slater,Heidi Johansen-Berg,Irene Tracey +5 more
TL;DR: The brain’s ability to reorganise itself is key to the authors' recovery from injuries, but the subsequent mismatch between old and new organisation may lead to pain, so a ‘maladaptive plasticity’ theory is argued against by showing that phantom pain in upper limb amputees is independent of cortical remapping.