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They delineate four categories of function along this sensorimotor continuum -- tactile sensing, active haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled movements -- that they use as a framework for analyzing and synthesizing the results from a broad range of studies that have contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand functions.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
It was adapted from Latin "prehension -, prehensio" ( "act of seizing") -- again, from "prehendere."— Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Using an interdisciplinary approach and new framework for looking at prehension, the authors uncover the subleties of the amazing interaction between the hand and the brain.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
And it might also suggest differences in the functional organization of AIP in right - and left-handed people as previously demonstrated for motor and premotor areas Lesion, imaging, and electrophysiological evidence suggest a cerebellar involvement during prehension.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
In first instance, one study provides compelling evidence that in the distal forelimb representation of area F2 there are neurons that are selective for the type of prehension required for grasping the object— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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