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Wicked cool! It's interesting how they were able to tease out the differences. I didn't realize that there was a natural slow down during a mistype, but now I'm paying more attention to my typing!
It's misleading that they say the "Fingers know" though, because it's still the brain doing the work, just not consciously.
True, but it's still cool. I was typing along and started paying attention to when I made a mistake. Now I'm all self-concious about it!
Good point Brian, it would be interesting to know if it's different parts of the brain involved in the two processes, quite likely I would imagine. Now you're aware of it you're probably not correcting automatically now, you're brain is probably consciously on the look out!
I wonder what the data would look like if they were able to hook the subjects up to brain imaging during the tests. We might see different areas light up.
The issue with that would be are they processing the stuff they are typing and would that interfere with the study that you are proposing Nikkilina.
If they didn't do brain immaging in this study, where did they get that picture from? Its kinda misleading....
I think that Brian put the picture up. I'm not sure that it is from the press release/article. Correct me if I'm wrong Brian. I have however seen this picture up a few times in relation to brain studies without any mention of MRIs in the text.
I think Will's right. It's a stock image that Brian adds to some stories.
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