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Post by auntym on Nov 7, 2014 12:10:20 GMT -6
news.discovery.com/human/psychology/do-ghosts-live-in-our-brains-141106.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 Do Ghosts Live in Our Brains?Nov 6, 2014 by Sheila M. Eldred While it may not stop people from believing in ghosts, researchers say they have new evidence that they live only in our minds. Science can explain the feeling people get of a “presence” that’s not actually there, according to a new study published in Current Biology. The researchers were able to replicate that ghostly feeling in a lab by interfering with the sensorimotor input of participants’ brains. When confronted with conflicting sensory-motor signals, some of the participants said they felt up to four ghosts. Some were so disturbed that they asked the experiment to be stopped. VIDEO: Do Ghosts Exist? Exploring the Paranormal: news.discovery.com/human/videos/do-ghosts-exist-video.htmParticipants were blindfolded and asked to perform movements with their hands in front of their bodies while a robotic device reproduced their movements and touched their backs. When a delay was introduced between the movement and the robotic touch, it created a distorted spatial perception that led to the ghost illusion, the researchers said. An MRI analysis confirmed that the participants’ brains were undergoing interference with the three regions associated with self-awareness and sense of spatial position. CONTINUE READING: news.discovery.com/human/psychology/do-ghosts-live-in-our-brains-141106.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
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Post by casper on Nov 7, 2014 19:22:02 GMT -6
If a robot is touching people then of course they are gonna feel a presence. It's the robot!! That experiment was silly. I think that ghosts could live in peoples brains if they were possessed by them. The ghosts would have to be somewhere in the persons body so why not the brain? That woild be a good place for them to hide. People are so busy thinking stuff they wouldn't even know that a ghost was there.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 18:44:46 GMT -6
LOL, Casper! I agree with a lot of what you say, but I do think it's awesome that someone(s) are making an effort to do this kind of research on ghosts. In the last year I posted a study (somewhere? ) that talked about how noise frequencies, some we can hear, and some we cannot, may make us "feel that an unknown invisible presence" is nearby. This really makes sense to me. Look what has been proven that noise frequencies, etc. can do to water!?!
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