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Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present
1Department of Psychology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|March 18, 2003
Abstract:
Can the brain, when stimulated, yield entirely novel experiences? Blanke et al. (2002) describe a patient who reported spontaneous out-of-body experiences during electrical stimulation of her angular gyrus. These findings, although apparently extraordinary, agree with much earlier reports from a patient tested by Wilder Penfield. Such studies can provide clues about the nature of conscious experience.