Grants 2002

Title
Researchers
Institution
Duration
Database
Results

The investigation of telepathy and the sense of being stared at in humans and animals

Rupert Sheldrake, Pam Smart, Kara Murray
Centre for the Seven Experiments Project, London (UK)
2003/03 - 2005/04

The neural structures involved in procedural memory

Sara Cavaco, Alexandre Lemos de Castro Caldas, Steven Anderson
Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Lisboa (Portugal)
2003/11 - 2006/10

Os efeitos dos jogos electrónicos com equipamento de realidade virtual na activação psicofisiológica, estruturas cognitivas, estado emocional e comportamento agressivo

Patrícia Arriaga Ferreira, Francisco Esteves, Maria Paula Carneiro
Centro de Estudos de Psicologia Cognitiva e da Aprendizagem, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa (Portugal)
2003/09 - 2006/11

Bases psicofisiológicas dos fenómenos de consciência visual

Miguel Castelo-Branco, Lajos Kozac, Mafalda Mendes, Vasco Forjaz, Manuela Guerreiro
Centro de Oftalmologia, Coimbra (Portugal)
2003/01 - 2005/12

Psychophysiological mechanisms of some aspects of neurocognitive deficit in schizophrenic patients

Valeria Strelets, Janna Golikova, Vladimir Novototsky-Vlasov, R.A. Magomedov, M.V. Magomedova
Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
2003/02 - 2004/12

The use of an implicit grammar task and eye measurements to study the somatic marker hypothesis

Dick Bierman, Axel Cleeremans, Eveline Crone
Psychology Research Institute, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2003/01 - 2005/01

Vinculação e regulação autonómica: Desenvolvimento da versão 2.0 do BioDreAMS e aplicação a um grupo não-clínico

Isabel Soares, João Paulo Silva Cunha, Carlos da Silva Fernandes, Paulo Manuel Machado, Ovídio Costa, Maria Carolina Costa e Silva
Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2003/05 - 2006/09

Biochemical characteristics associated to rabbit telepathy

Carlota Saldanha, Teresa Raquel Pacheco
Instituto de Bioquímica, Faculdade de Medicina Lisboa (Portugal)
2003/01 - 2004/06

Anomalous/paranormal detection using psi-reading tests (Phase II): New parapsychological, psychological and neuropsychological exploration data through seven tests with selected/non-selected subjects

Alejandro Parra, Juan Carlos Argibay
Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2003/03 - 2005/01

Emotional factors in placebo analgesia: Psychophysiological experiments

Magne Arve Flaten, Oddmund Johansen, Terje Simonsen, Jan Brox, Arnstein Finset
Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital of North Norway (Norway)
2003/03 - 2006/10

Psychokinesis and telepathy with hypnotised human

René Peoc'h, Rémy Chauvin
Institut International d'Immunologie, Bouguenais (France)
2003/06 - 2006/02

Exploring the limits of human perception: The psychological and physiological detection of normal and remote staring

Ian Baker, Paul Stevens
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, The University of Edinburgh (UK)
2004/01 - 2005/05

Near-death experiences during induced cardiac arrest

Bruce Greyson, J. Paul Mounsey, Martha Mercier, Janet Holden
Division of Personality Studies, University of Virginia (USA)
2003/06 - 2007/03

Investigating individual differences in EDA response to emotional stimuli in a DMILS paradigm

Peter Ramakers, Paul Stevens
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, The University of Edinburgh (UK)
2004/01 - 2007/01

Changes in conscious awareness during autobiographical memory and spontaneous self-paced movement: Two tests of the "Dynamic Core Model" of consciousness

Adrian Burgess, Nicholas Cooper
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience & Behaviour, London (UK)
2003/03 - 2004/04

The effects of exercise and meditation on the psychological stress level and quality of life of Cypriot men and women, a multimodal investigation

Michael Angastiniotis, Kypros Nicolaou, Panayiota Andreou, Poyvios Mylonas
Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Centre - PIKA, Nicosia (Cyprus)
2003/06 - 2006/12

Exploring psychomanteum as a psi-conducive state of consciousness: Psychological, neuropsychological and parapsichological research of anomalous cognition (ESP) using dynamic/non-dynamic (emotional) visual targets, observation/no-observation conditions, and psychomanteum/non-psychomanteum sessions

Alejandro Parra, Jorge Fernando Villanueva
Instituto de Psicología Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2003/03 - 2005/01

Preservation and change in two temperamental types

Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman
Harvard University Psychology Department, Cambridge (USA)
2003/01 - 2005/09

Effects of distant emotions on the human enteric nervous system

Marilyn Schlitz, Dean Radin
Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)
2003/01 - 2004/03

Crenças em efeitos psi: Caracterização social e psicológica

Carlos Fernandes da Silva, Paulo Joaquim Rodrigues, José António de Souza
Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2003/01 - 2005/07

An evolutionary approach to anomalous cognition

Christopher Charles French, Louie Savva
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK)
2003/01 - 2004/05

Psychological and parapsychological investigations of alleged alien abductees: Phase I

Christopher Charles French, Julia Samtomauro, Michael Thalbourne
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK)
2003/10 - 2006/01

A qualitative analysis of rapport and alignment in experimenter-subject interaction in Ganzfeld experiments

Robin Wooffitt
Department of Sociology, University of York (UK)
2003/07 - 2004/08

Further developments and applications of the digital Ganzfeld

Adrian Parker, Joakim Westerlund
Psychology Department, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
2003/02 - 2006/02

Mapping the time course of emotional information processing in anxious and repressive/defensive individuals

Nazanin Derakshan, Ottmar Lipp
University of Leeds (UK) and University of Queensland (Australia)
2003/04 - 2008/04

Implicit learning and parapsychology: Exploring the boundaries of unconscious processes

Stuart Wilson
Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh (UK)
2003/04 - 2005/07

Vinculação materna: Dimensões hormonais envolvidas no processo inicial de vinculação da mãe ao bebé

Bárbara Figueiredo, Raquel Costa, Alexandra Pacheco, Álvaro Ferreira Pais
Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2003/01 - 2007/06

Investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons

Emily Williams Kelly, Bruce Greyson, Jim Tucker, Dianne Arcangel, Edward Kelly
Division of Personality Studies, University of Virginia (USA)
2003/10 - 2008/01

Considering the sender in ostensible ganzfeld ESP studies to be a PK source

Chris Roe, Nicola Holt
University College Northampton (UK)
2003/12 - 2005/12

Assessing the relationship between subjective validation, personality characteristics and beliefs in the paranormal

David Marks, Robert Snowden, Nicola Gray, Lisa Evans, Anastasia Soureti
Department of Psychology, City University London (UK)
2003/01 - 2005/03

Extended communication of affective states: Physiological and emotional responses to non-sensory stimuli

Paul Stevens
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, The University of Edinburgh (UK)
2004/01 - 2005/05

Effects of GSM use of brain function and information processing - Phase I

Martijn Arns, E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar
The Brain Resource Company, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2003/01 - 2003/09

Comparative study of brain processes related to space-induced and clinical oculomotor disturbances

Inessa B. Kozlovskaya, Elena Tomilovskaya, Anna Kirenskaya, Vladimir Novototsky-Vlasov, Vadim Myamlin
State Research Centre RF Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow (Russia)
2003/02 - 2005/01

A neuropsychological examination of orbitofrontal cortex function in eating disorders

Janet Treasure, Kate Tchanturia
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK)
2003/03 - 2004/09

Brain function, creativity, paranormal ideation and risk for psychosis

Alexander Sumich, Michael Brammer, Dominic Ffytch
Brain Image Analysis Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK)
2003/03 - 2005/04

"I just had this feeling...": A somatic marker approach to understanding intuitive decision making

Richard Broughton
The University of Northampton (UK)
2003/04 - 2005/09

Face processing in 3-day-olds: An electrophysiological approach

Olivier Pascalis, de Haan Michelle, Saachi Reza
Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield (UK)
2003/01 - 2005/02

Sonhos em surdos: Alterações oníricas por défice sensorial

Teresa Paiva, Hélder Manuel Bértolo, Mário Andrea, Óscar Dias, Isabel Galhardo, Tiago Mestre, Pedro Miguel Rocha, Lara Pessoa, Rosa Santos, Mónica Andrea, Graça Caldeira, Cristina Ramos
Núcleo de Lisboa do ISTEL - Instituto do Sono, Cronobiologia e Telemedicina (Portugal)
2003/03 - 2007/01

Retrocausal signalling with prestimulus response

James Spottiswoode
Geonet Technologies, Inc., Beverly Hills (USA)
2003/02 - 2004/04

The pro attitude and its relationship to psi in a psychophysiological study involving the I Ching and the ProComp+ Neuro-Biofeedback Apparatus

Michael Thalbourne, Lance Storm
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Dep. 
Psychology, University of Adelaide - Australia
2003/03 - 2004/09

The measurement and characterization of charge accumulation and electromagnetic emissions from bioenergy healers

William Joines, Stephen Baumann
Field and Matter Interactions Research Laboratory, Duke University (USA)
2003/05 - 2005/11

Psiconeurofisiologia comparativa entre as memórias traumáticas de vida actual e as memórias traumáticas de supostas vidas passadas: SPECT cerebral em 20 pacientes submetidos à Terapia Regressiva Vivencial Peres

Maria Júlia Prieto Peres, Júlio Prieto Peres, Regis Cavini Ferreira, Vivian Pires de Albuquerque
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa e Terapia Regressiva Vivencial Peres, São Paulo, (Brazil)
2003/01 - 2008/03

Differential responses to target vs. non-target psi stimuli: An event-related fMRI study

Stephen Kosslyn, Sam Moulton
Harvard University Psychology Department and NMR Center (USA)
2003/01 - 2007/01

The flexibility of physical body boundaries and its relationship to out-of-body experiences

Craig Murray, Jezz Fox
Liverpool Hope University College (UK)
2003/08 - 2004/12

Servindo dois lados: As características do trabalho como preditores de respostas psicossociais e psicofisiológicas ao stress em médicos e enfermeiros em posições de gestão

Scott Elmes McIntyre, Teresa McIntyre, João Manuel Salgado, João Paulo Pereira, José da Costa Dantas, Derek Johnston, Martyn Jones
Centro de Investigação, de Formação e Intervenção em Saúde, Maia (Portugal)
2003/05 - 2007/09

Pursuing psi in a non-EuroAmerican culture: Behavioral DMILS in Bali

Hoyt Edge, Luh Ketut Suryaní
College of Arts and Sciences, Rollins College, Winter Park (USA)
2003/03 - 2005/03

Ganzfeld digital fisiológico: Em busca de uma medida mais objectiva para psi

Fábio Eduardo da Silva, Sibele Aparecida Pilato, Reginaldo de Castro Hiraoka
Faculdades Integradas Espírita, Centro Integrado de Parapsicologia Experimental, Laboratório de Pesquisa Ganzfeld, Curitiba (Brazil)
2003/01 - 2009/11
Inconclusive project

Cortical network mechanisms underlying memory encoding and retrieval: Insights from electromagnetic and hemodynamic functional imaging of the intact and lesioned brain

Cornelis Jan Stam, Hanneke Meeren, Jan Munck, Serge Rombouts, Stiliyan Kalitzin, Fernando Lopes da Silva, Willem Alpherts
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Canceled

Factors affecting the relationship between human intentionality and the hemolysis of red blood cells

John Palmer, Stephen Baumann, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Colleen Rae, Anne Poole
Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)
2003/05 - 2005/03

Experimenter effects and psi performance using a digital autoganzfeld system

Matthew D. Smith
Liverpool Hope University College (UK)
2003/10 - 2008/04

Receiver's EDA and skin temperature changes in remote bio-PK attack "Toh-ate"

Mikio Yamamoto, Hideyuki Kokubo, Weizhong Chen
National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi (Japan)
2003/02 - 2004/09

The manipulation of Ganzfeld ESP performance by the control of implicit percipient variables

James Carpenter, Christine Simmonds-Moore
Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)
2003/01 - 2005/09