Talk:Mirror box

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This article has been kept following this VFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 28 June 2005 11:50 (UTC)

The article still doesn´t explain, how and why the Mirror Box works. The link does it at least about, but from an NLP POV. Mami 00:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

This should probably be combined somehow with the phantom limb article. I put a link there to a radio show [1] which contains an interview with Ramachandran explaining this case. M. Stern 03:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi everyone. I have been working on both the phantom limbs article and the mirror box example. I have moved the large quote from PiTB that was here to the phantom limbs page, since it really relates more generally to phantom limbs, and less specifically to the mirror box. I have also added a fairly "simple" explanation of how the mirror box works (this is about the level that we give in lectures to undergraduate students). I have also copied many of the links, appropriate references, and external links from my cleaned up version of the phantom limbs page. In addition to explaining how the mirror box is meant to work, I have included just a little information about other clinical applications of the mirror box, although I have noted that a lot of work still needs to be done to explore and test these extensions. Overall, I hope that this new version of the entry both better justifies its existence and inspires other people to add more details. Edhubbard 16:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Double-mirrored? There's more than one mirror?

Yeah, there are two mirrors, one for each side, since you never can know in advance which limb will have been amputated. The image that the patient sees is only reflected one time, so it's not as if subjects are seeing multiple reflections. "Double mirrored" was in the original version that I cleaned up. Anyone have a thought for a better way of saying this? I'm also looking to see if we have an image that is non-published (and therefore non-copyrighted) since it's much easier to understand with a picture. Edhubbard 05:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image

The image is interesting. Why is the right hand on the left side and vice versa? 24.177.1.156 17:27, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Uhhhh... because I'm a dumb***... I hadn't noticed, but now that you point it out, I'll fix it right away. Edhubbard 19:10, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, Ed seems to be...gone. Someone else has to take care of this. And it is ugly. Dang.

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