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Figure 16.5. Representation of the person’s phantom hand on both the cheek
and the stump at the shoulder where the amputation occurred. Touching
different spots in these body locations evokes an experience of the person’s
phantom hand, wrist, and arm being touched.


If the body map is reorganizing in this way, then touching the face
or the shoulder of an amputee should elicit, in a well-defined way,
the experience of the phantom arm being touched. An experiment to

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