Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Some psychology studies sound fun

This article at PhysOrg got my attention:

Inducing auditory hallucinations in a lab environment without using drugs

It all involves a poke in the back, which makes people start to sense a person is behind them, which leads to hearing a voice too (!).

The human imagination is indeed very powerful, it seems.

1 comment:

John said...

The human imagination is indeed very powerful, it seems.

Not so much imagination as association:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-classic-fake-hand-illusion-that-tricks-the-brain-could-be-used-to-treat-ocd