Researchers discovered reduced activity in a part of the cerebral cortex of the brain called the "fusiform gyrus".
The parieto-temporal region, just behind the ear, and the inferior frontal gyrus, at the front, slowly analyze words.
It includes the amygdala, hippocampus, cingulated gyrus, orbital frontal cortex, and the insula.
As he reports in Nature this week, Dr Blanke then systematically applied additional electric currents to the woman's right angular gyrus.
In the seconds before the insight appears, a brain area called the superior anterior temporal gyrus (aSTG) exhibits a sharp spike in activity.
Scientists at Columbia University have shown that exercise can stimulate the dentate gyrus, an area of the brain that affects our ability to remember things.
Mr Woodford was fired in October after raising doubts about massive fees paid in the purchase of British medical equipment maker Gyrus Group in 2008.
The left Heschl's gyrus is bigger than average in professional phoneticians.
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The brains of lying subjects light up in particular places notably the anterior cingulate gyrus and left prefrontal cortex in ways that they do not in the honest.
This has led him to conclude that the structures of the brain used for musical memory "might be the superior temporal gyrus or the frontal lobes".
When the current was first applied to the right angular gyrus, the woman reported that she was sinking into the bed, as if falling from a height.
The mechanism behind this bias appears to be located in a specific part of the brain, the left inferior frontal gyrus, which is involved in language, among other functions.
Five years ago Dr Blanke found he could induce such experiences at will in one such person by stimulating a particular part of her brain the right angular gyrus with an electric current.
According to a December 6 report issued by the third party set up by the company to investigate Woodford's claims, the company had inflated fees for the 2008 purchase of Gyrus, a UK medical instruments firm.
While probing the brain of a woman who suffered from epilepsy, Olaf Blanke and his colleagues at the University Hospital of Geneva found that stimulating the right angular gyrus (a point about an inch above and slightly behind the right ear, and just inside the skull) caused her to feel that she was travelling out of her own body.
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