One of the things your brain excels at is changing itself around to fit new circumstances. People can cut bits out of it, sometimes extending to half of your entire brain, and the mind adapts.
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IF a rapid series of taps are applied first to your wrist and then to your elbow, you will experience a perceptual illusion, in which phantom sensations are felt along the skin connecting the two points that were actually touched.... Delete the scoop?
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A surprisingly large number of people report having had an Out of Body Experience A common story is they find their awareness floating up near the ceiling Dr Graham Philips met up with scientists in in Switzerland who’ve been examining the phenomenon (includes video). Delete the scoop?
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It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. But such experiences are routine in the lab of Henrik Ehrsson, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who uses illusions to probe, stretch and displace people's sense of self. Today, using little more than a video camera, goggles and two sticks, he has convinced me that I am floating a few metres behind my own body. As I see a knife plunging towards my virtual chest, I flinch. Two electrodes on my fingers record the sweat that automatically erupts on my skin, and a nearby laptop plots my spiking fear on a graph. Delete the scoop?
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A serendipitous discovery by academics has shown that a simple illusion can significantly reduce -- and in some cases even temporarily eradicate -- arthritic pain in the hand. Delete the scoop?
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Touch and related capabilities are commonly underrated. Yet, these capabilities are essential for normal human functioning, as demonstrated by the catastrophic consequences that follow after losing them (Robles-De-La-Torre 2006). Also, we perhaps tend to think that touch is somehow more veridical than the other senses. Perhaps this is because we know that there are many visual illusions, but we rarely hear about touch illusions. Delete the scoop?
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Here are some illusions that you can perform and experience with "nothing up your sleeve but dirty elbows," as the magician says. No props are needed, and you can amaze yourself or your friends right now. Follow the simple directions for each of the examples below. Delete the scoop?
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Try this series of illusions all based on touch. Delete the scoop?
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It's surprisingly easy for your body to fool your brain. Graham Lawton puts his sense of touch to the test. Delete the scoop?
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Watch where you put your hands, because Roger Newport of the University of Nottingham knows how to fool a brain into thinking they have vanished. Delete the scoop?
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Dateline: 15 November 2011 // Posted by: Kaitlin Hanley Delete the scoop?
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Scientists used virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick to induce the sensation, a journal reports. Delete the scoop?
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A mirror and massage curtail pain in a case where strong and dangerous pain drugs had failed. Delete the scoop?
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Patients who undergo amputations commonly experience phantom pain, a common side effect. Unfortunately, treatments for this conditions have not been very effective. Delete the scoop?
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About 10 years ago, psychologists discovered that they could convince people that a rubber hand was their own...(includes video) Delete the scoop?
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Tricking the mind can often be more than meets the eye. Using nothing more than a ball or a bowl, you too will be able to discover your myterious sixth sense. Delete the scoop?
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Well, it's not quite as erotic as it sounds, but they could break the ice on more than a few Valentine's dates. Hayward's new article in Brain Research Bulletin describes all known tactile illusions. Some can be tried easily at... Delete the scoop?
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The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true se... Delete the scoop?
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