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Scientists have been unable to cause a ghost
| Posted on January 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM |
Researchers have been unable to link the impact on the people of electromagnetic fields and infrasound with the advent of "Ghosts effect." The group of psychologists in Goldsmitskom College, of which informs the site BoingBoing, calculated in a way to reproduce the feeling like visiting houses with ghosts, and the task was successfully completed. Visitors to a specially built room felt the presence of foreign, strange smells and concerns. Only one detail troubled experimenters, to publish the results in the journal Cortex - all of these symptoms were not related to the inclusion of emitters.
The processing of results has not been able to identify reliable according to the appearance of unusual sensations from including installation. According to scientists, most likely occurred self. Participating in the study, people were expecting something unusual and beyond any random stimulus led to the emergence of typical houses with ghosts "effects.
The only thing it could find the correlation is the level of predisposition to epilepsy. The test, which he proposed clinical oprosnike mentioned items showing increased activity temporal lobe brain showed "the effect of bringing" more often. According to psychiatrists, anomalous (and actors experiment were healthy people) is the activity the temporal cortex may be related to hallucinations.
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