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How scientists produce ghosts

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    Le 19h30
  • 06 November 2014
  • Olaf Blanke
    • Sciences de la vie, EPFL
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Ghosts exist only in our heads, and we now know exactly where to find them. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions have often testified to this "feeling of a presence". Researchers are now reproducing this illusion in the laboratory, with healthy subjects.

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