Dr. Pierre Mégevand was in the middle of a somewhat-routine epilepsy test when his patient, a 22-year old man, said Mégevand and his medical team looked like they had transformed into Italians working at a pizzeria — aprons and all. It wasn’t long, the patient said, before the doctors morphed back into their exam room and business-casual attire. But that fleeting hallucination — accompanied by earlier visions of houses, a familiar train station and the street where the patient grew up — helped verify that a certain spot, in a certain fold in the brain, is a crucial node in the brain’s process of recognizing places.
via Wired
Image: Mégevand et.al.
