Induction of an illusory shadow person Export

@article{citeulike:851697, abstract = {Stimulation of a site on the brain's left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by. The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present has been described by psychiatric and neurological patients, as well as by healthy subjects, but it is not understood how the illusion is triggered by the brain1, 2. Here we describe the repeated induction of this sensation in a patient who was undergoing presurgical evaluation for epilepsy treatment, as a result of focal electrical stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction: the illusory person closely 'shadowed' changes in the patient's body position and posture. These perceptions may have been due to a disturbance in the multisensory processing of body and self at the temporoparietal junction.}, author = {Arzy, Shahar and Seeck, Margitta and Ortigue, Stephanie and Spinelli, Laurent and Blanke, Olaf}, citeulike-article-id = {851697}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/443287a}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/443287a}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16988702}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16988702}, day = {20}, doi = {10.1038/443287a}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {brain, left\_temporoparietal, neuropsychology, presence, shadow}, month = {September}, number = {7109}, pages = {287}, posted-at = {2009-10-31 18:09:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Induction of an illusory shadow person}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/443287a}, volume = {443}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:851697 L3 - citeulike-article-id:851697 N2 - Stimulation of a site on the brain's left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by. The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present has been described by psychiatric and neurological patients, as well as by healthy subjects, but it is not understood how the illusion is triggered by the brain1, 2. Here we describe the repeated induction of this sensation in a patient who was undergoing presurgical evaluation for epilepsy treatment, as a result of focal electrical stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction: the illusory person closely 'shadowed' changes in the patient's body position and posture. These perceptions may have been due to a disturbance in the multisensory processing of body and self at the temporoparietal junction. IS - 7109 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 EP - 287 TI - Induction of an illusory shadow person PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 443 SP - 287 KW - brain KW - left_temporoparietal KW - neuropsychology KW - presence KW - shadow AU - Arzy, Shahar AU - Seeck, Margitta AU - Ortigue, Stephanie AU - Spinelli, Laurent AU - Blanke, Olaf PY - 2006/09/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/443287a ER -