Induction of an illusory shadow person

Shahar Arzy, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli and Olaf Blanke ()
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Shahar Arzy: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Margitta Seeck: Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation Unit, University Hospital
Stephanie Ortigue: University Hospital
Laurent Spinelli: Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation Unit, University Hospital
Olaf Blanke: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Nature, 2006, vol. 443, issue 7109, 287-287

Abstract: Body double The strange feeling that somebody is nearby when nobody's there has been reported by healthy individuals as well as neurological patients. Clues as to what triggers the illusion have been obtained from a patient being evaluated for anti-epilepsy treatment who repeatedly sensed an illusory person closely 'shadowing' her body position and posture. The prompt for this illusion was stimulation of an area on the left temporoparietal junction, pointing to a possible disturbance in multisensory processing of body and self in this part of the brain.

Date: 2006
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