article_snippet.sent: The sensation was re-created by researchers using a robot to interfere with the sensory signals in the brains of blindfolded volunteers.
article_snippet.sent: We built a robot which allows us to distort this signal, which makes it hard - or impossible actually - We robot makes it impossible for We healthy subjects now to predict those signals.
article_snippet.sent: The robot creates a disconnect between the movements subjects make and the sensations the movements subjects were expecting, mixing up 'sensorimotor' brain signals of individuals so that individuals brains no longer recognized input signals as belonging to individuals own body.
article_snippet.sent: Blanke hopes the research could lead to a similar robotic system that doesn't induce neurological symptoms, but helps patients overcome such sensations. '
article_snippet.sent: We are very interested in pursuing this line of work to build similar robotic devices based on We prototype that do not induce psychotic symptoms in healthy subjects but a similar robot that could be used to down regulate psychotic symptoms in actual patients.'
article_snippet.sent: a similar robot that could be used to down regulate psychotic symptoms in actual patients made humans feel the illusory presence of a non-existent 'ghost'.
article_snippet.sent: Such therapies, Blanke says, could include a wearable device that would help neurological patients down-regulate - or reduce - these feelings; in effect a device to reverse the sensations they created in the lab. '
article_snippet.sent: A more future version we are still working on at the moment could be a completely wearable set-up of the device that you have seen.
article_snippet.sent: So this is something that the patient will have maybe inserted in Blanke clothes; smart textiles in a way.