'Ghostly presence' created in lab

Scientists say they have identified parts of the brain that generate feelings of a phantom-like presence and create an experiment that makes ...

According to the researchers, this confused the brain's ability to perceive sensory information coming from the body, creating the illusion of a ...

Researchers at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have now recreated the same sensations in perfectly healthy subjects, ...

What the study showed is that the perception of a presence "can arise under normal conditions, simply through conflicting sensory-motor ...

... in the laboratory by tricking the brains of test subjects into feeling an unexpected 'presence' in the room.

Neuroscientists have created 'ghosts' in the laboratory by tricking the brains of test subjects into feeling an unexpected "presence" in the ...

Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often reported 'feeling a presence' watching over them.

... presence”. EPFL researchers have now succeeded in recreating this illusion in the lab. To know more: http://actu.epfl.ch/news ...

In most cases, the sufferer reports the very real sensation of an unseen presence. This is the stuff of which ghost stories are made, but ...

Sometimes people report they can feel a strange presence around them — a ghost. Now scientists create the eerie sensation in people using a ...

How to make ghosts in the lab: scientists trick volunteers into reporting 'feelings of presence' ... made to feel that a creepy "presence" was ...

Swiss researchers carried out an experiment to make artificial 'ghosts' · They were investigating why some people feel a 'creepy presence' · And ...

Researchers have designed a robot that makes humans feel the illusory presence of a non-existent "ghost".

Blanke now wants to scan the volunteers' brains to see what happens when they fall for the illusion. He has some hints already, through studying ...

These visions often spoke to the person in distress, providing comfort, advice, or simply company, and in most cases the presence disappeared ...

Ghostly apparitions and hauntings have pervaded folklore and legend for thousands of years, but now scientists have shown that they are just ...

To study how the brain forms presence hallucinations in more detail, scientists in Blanke's lab had to develop a way to induce them. Their ...

... of a ghostly presence. Dr. Giulio Rognini, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), explains that this vivid sensation…

Because Spirits live on a different dimension. · We are Physical beings, the range of light and sounds we can perceive with our physical senses ...

I have investigated a few hauntings and ghostly phenomenon. In reality I was investigating the ghost-hunters who were investigating alleged ...