The felt-presence experience : from cognition to the clinic

Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved..

The felt presence experience is the basic feeling that someone else is present in the immediate environment, without clear sensory evidence. Ranging from benevolent to distressing, personified to ambiguous, felt presence has been observed in neurological case studies and within psychosis and paranoia, associated with sleep paralysis and anxiety, and recorded within endurance sports and spiritualist communities. In this Review, we summarise the philosophical, phenomenological, clinical, and non-clinical correlates of felt presence, as well as current approaches that use psychometric, cognitive, and neurophysiological methods. We present current mechanistic explanations for felt presence, suggest a unifying cognitive framework for the phenomenon, and discuss outstanding questions for the field. Felt presence offers a sublime opportunity to understand the cognitive neuroscience of own-body awareness and social agency detection, as an intuitive, but poorly understood, experience in health and disorder.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

The lancet. Psychiatry - 10(2023), 5 vom: 06. Mai, Seite 352-362

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Barnby, Joseph M [VerfasserIn]
Park, Sohee [VerfasserIn]
Baxter, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
Rosen, Cherise [VerfasserIn]
Brugger, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Alderson-Day, Ben [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Journal Article
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 18.04.2023

Date Revised 21.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00034-2

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354950479