13 August,2012 08:11 AM IST | | Agencies
The woman was born with only three fingers on her right hand and had the hand amputated after a car accident. She later began to feel that her missing limb was still present and developed a "phantom" hand.
"But here's the interesting thing," said Paul McGeoch at the University of California, San Diego. "Her phantom hand didn't have three digits, it had five." u00a0