Scientist Reports Right Hemisphere Stroke Victims Can Move Objects With Their Minds

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"He has them try to, with their minds, move an arrow on a screen in a particular direction, just with their minds, like not with a mouse. And the ones who can do it well are the ones who have the left frontal. Above chance. It suggests that this area around here, left frontal orbital area, is involved in actually reducing our capacity to use our right hemisphere."

Morris Friedman at Baycrest in Canada discovered that patients with left frontal strokes could move arrows on screens using only their minds at rates above statistical chance. The neuroscientist colleague interprets this as evidence that the left frontal cortex normally inhibits psychic abilities located in the right hemisphere, and damage removes this inhibition.