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She combined conventional physical therapy with Fairchild's coaching and her use of the Cortical Field Reeducation teachings.

Going the distance to coach

In the experiments, the mice tasted real bitter, sweet and salty chemicals at times, but at other times the researchers used the laser to activate the animals' sweet or bitter cortical fields.

Tastes Turned On & Off With Brain Manipulation

In this collection of 28 articles from the September 2003 "International Conference on Auditory Cortex: Toward a Synthesis of Human and Animal Research," contributors compare their research in auditory cortical fields and their functions, the coding of sounds, and auditory plasticity, learning and cognition.