Locating One's Self at the Temporoparietal Junction
Main Category: Neurology / NeuroscienceArticle Date: 19 Jan 2005 - 6:00 PDT
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In this week's Journal, of Neuroscience Blanke et al attempt to link the phenomenon known as an out-of-body experience (OBE) with specific brain activity.
During an OBE, one senses that the "self" departs the body so that the body and the world can be viewed from "outside."
Healthy volunteers imagined an OBE, mentally shifting their visual perspective and body position. Evoked potential mapping revealed selective activation at the temporoparietal junction. It seems that out of the body is not necessarily out of the brain.
Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr, Christoph M. Michel, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Peter Brugger, Margitta Seeck, Theodor Landis, and Gregor Thut
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