The part of the brain involved in the out-of-body experience is the right angular gyrus, which sits about an inch above and behind the right ear.
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The angular gyrus is thought to play an important role in the way the brain analyzes sensory information to give us a perception of our own bodies.
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Examining the relationship within the pathway specifically in cases of synesthesia, Ramachandran found that synesthetes on average have a higher density of fibers surrounding the angular gyrus.
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V . S . Ramachandran, and Edward Hubbard published a paper in 2003 in which they speculated that the angular gyrus is at least partially responsible for understanding metaphors.
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Research by Krish Sathian ( Emory University ) using functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) suggests that the angular gyrus does not play a role in creating conceptual metaphors.
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This particular ailment, known as Gerstmann syndrome, is often seen in patients with a lesion on their left angular gyrus, which is known to be frequently anatomically correlated with autotopagnosia.
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Stress causes alterations of cerebral circulation, increasing blood flow in the supramarginal gyrus and angular gyrus of the parietal lobe, the frontal lobe, and the superior temporal gyrus of the left hemisphere.
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The authors also found a correlation ( r = 0.496, p = 0.002 ) between activation of a region of the angular gyrus with a passionate-love scale measuring subjective feelings of love.
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Subliminal priming with either a beloved's name or a favorite hobby activated emotion and motivational brain regions : caudate nucleus, insula, bilateral fusiform regions, parahippocampal gyrus, right angular gyrus, occipital cortex, and cerebellum.
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In a study conducted comparing phonological and arithmetic processing and the involvement of different sections of the interior frontal gyrus and angular gyrus, cortical activation for phonology, subtraction, and multiplication tasks was compared.
