# Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions #### (2002) - Olaf Blanke, Stphanie Ortigue, Theodor Landis, Margitta Seeck **Link**:: https://www.nature.com/articles/419269a **DOI**:: 10.1038/419269a **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@Blanke2002-zh] ### Abstract ``` The part of the brain that can induce out-of-body experiences has been located. 'Out-of-body' experiences (OBEs) are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to become detached from the body and take up a remote viewing position1,2,3. Here we describe the repeated induction of this experience by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient who was undergoing evaluation for epilepsy treatment. Stimulation at this site also elicited illusory transformations of the patient's arm and legs (complex somatosensory responses) and whole-body displacements (vestibular responses), indicating that out-of-body experiences may reflect a failure by the brain to integrate complex somatosensory and vestibular information1,2,3. ``` ### Notes