Neuroreport
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Humans can perform purposeful hand actions even blindly in the dark, perhaps using mental images of the hand. To demonstrate such subjective body images, this study describes the activities of bimodal (somatosensory and visual) neurons in the monkey intraparietal cortex. ⋯ Furthermore, when the hand was moved invisibly under the plate, the v-RF moved over the plate to follow the invisible s-RF. Thus, monkeys can maintain and update subjective body images in the mind, and they are coded by intraparietal bimodal neurons.