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Why you can't individually control your toes

By Hank Campbell | October 17th 2011 09:14 PM | Print | E-mail

Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek recently got asked why a person can't individually control their toes. Well, I never thought about it before - I don't have great need to use individual toes in some prehensile fashion but perhaps that is only because I can't.

Voytek says the primary motor cortex is the issue and shows us all about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to boot.

Get a little smarter about your toes (and your fingers) at Why you can't individually control your toes by Bradley Voytek, Oscillatory Thoughts

H/T David Dobbs

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