[Harriet Vane]

Jeg har lenket til den. Poenget er at folk som opplever "feeling of presence" ikke klarer å plassere seg selv skikkelig i rommet og tror at det -som er dem, bare på et annet sted enn de trodde- er noen andre, altså et spøkelse.

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The team believes when people sense a ghostly presence, the brain is getting confused: it's miscalculating the body's position and identifying it as belonging to someone else.

Dr Rognini said: "Our brain possesses several representations of our body in space.

"Under normal conditions, it is able to assemble a unified self-perception of the self from these representations.

"But when the system malfunctions because of disease - or, in this case, a robot - this can sometimes create a second representation of one's own body, which is no longer perceived as 'me' but as someone else, a 'presence'."

The researchers said that their findings could help to better understand neurological conditions such as schizophrenia.