Ouija board Experiment shows how Ghostly Messages Are Written by the Brain

Description

Depending on who you ask, Ouija boards are either an excellent way to communicate with the dead or an effective way to freak out your friends. Commercialized and popularized at the end of the 19th century, Ouija boards require two or more people to place their hands lightly on top of a triangular planchette and ask the board a question. The answer emerges from the letters, words, and numbers printed on the board. How the board “answers” is explained in a new study in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.