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Dani Clode, a collaborator within Professor Makin's lab, has developed the Third Thumb, an extra robotic thumb aimed at increasing the wearer's range of movement, enhancing their grasping capability and expanding the carrying capacity of the hand.

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So far the results of Makin’s studies contradict Beecher’s intuitions about hand-tool embodiment, as well as some modern research that had suggested using an implement alters internalized body maps.

Makin’s work has focused on developing a better understanding of how the brain can best accommodate artificial limbs that operate in the most efficient manner possible—hence her interest in determining whether embodiment is a real thing.

“We’re talking here about a whole map that doesn’t usually exist in adults,” said Ella Striem-Amit, a neuroscientist at Georgetown University who was not involved in Dr. Makin’s research.