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Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

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16 November 2010
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'Springer Science and Business Media LLC'
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    'Out-of-body' experiences (OBEs) are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to become detached from the body and take up a remote viewing position. Here we describe the repeated induction of this experience by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient who was undergoing evaluation for epilepsy treatment. Stimulation at this site also elicited illusory transformations of the patient's arm and legs (complex somatosensory responses) and whole-body displacements (vestibular responses), indicating that out-of-body experiences may reflect a failure by the brain to integrate complex somatosensory and vestibular information

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    Infoscience - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

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    This paper was published in Infoscience - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

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