2006 Grants

2006 Grants

Título/Title: "Automated testing for telepathy using emails and telephone calls"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Rupert Sheldrake, Ms. Pamela Smart, Dr. David Luke
Instituição/Institution: Perrot-Warrick Project, London (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/10 - 2010/06
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Título/Title: "Further Investigations of the I Ching: Reliability and Replication Studies"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Lance Storm
Instituição/Institution: Anomalous Psychology Research Unit, Dep. of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia)
Duração /Duration: 2007/03 - 2008/05
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Título/Title: "The impact of mindfulness meditation on visuomotor performance and awareness of action: an EEG study of short- and long-term meditators"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Stefan Schmidt, Dr. Jose Raul Naranjo
Instituição/Institution: Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Freiburg (Germany)
Duração/Duration: 2007/05 - 2009/11

Título/Title: "Vinculação em bebés institucionalizados e competência narrativa dos seus principais cuidadores: estudo sobre a actividade cardíaca do bebé na interacção com a figura de cuidados através do BioBeAMS 2.0"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutora Isabel Maria Costa Soares, Prof. Doutor João Paulo Silva Cunha, Prof. Doutora Margarida Isabel Rangel Santos Henriques, Prof. Doutora Carla Cristina Esteves Martins, Dr. Pedro Miguel Brito da Silva Dias
Instituição/Institution: Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPSi), Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/04 - 2010/05
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Título/Title: "Massagem ao Bebé Prematuro em Cuidados Intensivos Neonatais: Efeito no Funcionamento Psicofisiológico dos Bebés e Pais"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutora Bárbara Fernandes de Carvalho Figueiredo, Dra. Clara Sofia Domingues Paz Dias, Dra. Maria Alice Peixoto Freitas, Dra. Maria Agostinha Costa Andrade, Dra. Maria José Faria Novais Rebelo, Dra. Susana Nunes da Silva, Dra. Maria de Lurdes Alves Senra, Dra. Maria José Carvalho Ferreira, Dr. César Bessa Pinheiro Teixeira, Dra. Mariana Pinto Basto Teixeira, D. Diana Patrícia Pires Pinto, Dra. Mariana Bianchi de Aguiar, Dra. Ana Guedes, Dr. Pombeiro
Instituição/Institution: Cipsi, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/07 - 2010/11

Título/Title: "Does calcium leak in the brain cause mental retardation?"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Xander H.T. Wehrens, Dr. Subeena Sood, Dr. Priyanka Desai
Instituição/Institution: Baylor College of Medicine, Texas (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2009/12

Título/Title: "The use of a biological marker, 5-HT2C genotype, as a predictor of motivation, adherence and weight loss in participants of an obesity intervention programme"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Caroline Dalton, Dr. Jeff Breckon, Dr. Robert Copeland, Dr. Brian Hall, Prof. Gavin Reynolds
Instituição/Institution: Biomedical Research Centre and Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/04 - 2010/09
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Título/Title: "A review and analysis of conceptual frameworks in accounts of animal psi"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Diane Dutton, Dr. Carl Williams
Instituição/Institution: Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/09 - 2009/10
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Título/Title: "Developmental and genetic correlates of brain function in children at high- and low-risk for developing schizophrenia"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Kristin Robyn Laurens, Prof. Sheilagh Hodgins, Prof. Robin M. Murray, Prof. Eric A. Taylor, Prof. David Collier, Prof. Sir Michael Rutter
Instituição/Institution: Department of Forensic Mental Health Science, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK)
Duração prevista/Estimated Duration: 2008/01 - 2011/09
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Título/Title: "The psychophysiology of neurological abnormalities in first episode psychosis and in healthy individuals - A study using multimodal brain imagin"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Paola Dazzan, Prof. Philip McGuire, Dr. Carmine Pariante, Dr. Marta Di Forti, Dr. Julia Lappin, Dr. Valeria Mondelli
Instituição/Institution: Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/03 - 2010/09
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Título/Title: "Brain Electric Activity in Meditation: Extension of Earlier Work and Hypothesis Testing"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Dietrich Lehmann, Mr. Shisei Tei, Dr. Pascal Faber, Prof. Hiraoki Kumano, Dr. Lorena Gianotti, Dr. Roberto Pascual-Marqui
Instituição/Institution: The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich (Switzerland)
Duração/Duration: 2007/10 - 2010/01

Título/Title: "Psychophysiological studies of memory for imagined and perceived events: the effects of schizotypy"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Jane Herron, Dr. Lisa Evans
Instituição/Institution: Cardiff University, School of Psychology, Cardiff, Wales (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/04 - 2008/05
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Título/Title: "Exploring extrasensory perception under hypnosis stimulation: Personality, imagery, creativity dimension using emotional/neutral targets and relax-tension/hypnosis condition"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Alejandro Enrique Parra, Dr. Juan Carlos Argibay, Dr. Sérgio Matteucci
Instituição/Institution: Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/01
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Título/Title: "Hallucination Experience and PSI: A psychological, psychopathological, psychophysiological and transcultural approach"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Alejandro Enrique Parra, Dr. Luis Santiago Espinoza Paul
Instituição/Institution: Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Facultad de Psicologia, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/01
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Título/Title: "Heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility and its implications for the study of anomalous experiences"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Devin Blair Terhune, Prof. Etzel Cardeña
Instituição/Institution: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund (Sweden)
Duração /Duration: 2007/09 - 2010/10
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Título/Title: "The diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion in relation to season in healthy participants and those with seasonal affective disorder (SAD)"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Angela Clow, Prof. Phil Evans, Prof. Frank Hucklebridge, Dr. Lisa Thorn
Instituição/Institution: Psychophysiology and Stress Research Group, Dep. of Psychology and Human and Health Sciences, University of Westminster, London (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/05
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Título/Title: "Probing the human mirror neuron system using EEG: action observation, error monitoring and empathy"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Joseph Patrick Levy e Dr. Armanda H. R. Holmes, Dr. Lance Slade, Dr. Jonathan Silas, Dr. Maria Nielson
Instituição/Institution: Centre for Research in Cognition, Emotion and Interaction, School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University, London (UK)
Duração prevista/Estimated Duration: 2007/04 - 2011/09

Título/Title: "Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Discounting"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Margaret Livingstone, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, Dr. Johannes Haushofer, Dr. Camilo Libedinsky
Instituição/Institution: Harvard Medical School, Dep. of Neurobiology, Boston (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/10
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Título/Title: "The Pilgrimage Project: A study of motivations and experiences in sacred spaces"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Miguel H. Farias, Dr. Alana Harris, Prof. Christina Aus der Au, Dr. Katja Wiech, Dr. Pedro Soares, Dr. Wiebke Friese
Instituição/Institution: Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/03 - 2010/02

Título/Title: "Brain Imaging Study of the Psychological Antecedents and Neural Correlates of Moral Judgement"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Nicholas Shackel, Dr. Katja Wiech, Dr. Guy Kahane, Dr. Miguel Farias
Instituição/Institution: Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2008/12

Título/Title: "Exploring the Relationship of Out-of-Body Experiences and Hallucinations: The Role of Depersonalization Experiences"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Carlos S. Alvarado, Dr. Nancy Zingrone
Instituição/Institution: Parapsychology Foundation Satellite Office, Virginia (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/03 - 2009/05

Título/Title: "Out of body and In de body experience: Psychophysiology of bodily self-consciousness"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Patrick Haggard
Instituição/Institution: University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/09 - 2008/05
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Título/Title: "Ultra-weak photon emission and EEG in a study on color perception in the dark"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Roeland Van Wijk, Prof. R. Bajpai, Dr. E.P.A. Van Wijk, Dr. S. Bosman, Dr. J.M. Acherman
Instituição/Institution: International Institute of Biophysics, Neus (Germany)
Duração /Duration: 2007/03 - 2008/04
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Título/Title: "Required time for cognitive and motor activities in lucid dreams"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Daniel Erlacher, Dr. Michael Schredl, Dr. Carmen Gebhart
Instituição/Institution: University of Heidelberg, Institute for Sport and Sports Science, Heidelberg (Germany)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2009/01

Título/Title: "The role of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit in learning and memory: From patient studies to functional neuroimaging"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dra. Marieke van Asselen, Prof. Albert Postma, Prof. Doutor António Freire Gonçalves, Dra. Inês Almeida, Dr. José Rebola
Instituição/Institution: IBILI - Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Duração prevista/Estimated Duration: 2008/01 - 2011/08
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Título/Title: "ERP correlates of relational learning: Testing a behavioural model of word webs"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Simon Dymond, Prof. Lanny Fields
Instituição/Institution: Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dep. of Psychology, University of Wales, Swansea (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2009/03
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Título/Title: "Understanding the role of dendrites in cortical information processing"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Drazen Domijan, Prof. Mladenka Tkalcic, Dr. Mia Setic, Prof. Ana Prorokvic, Dr. Pavle Valerjev
Instituição/Institution: Dep. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka (Croatia)
Duração/Duration: 2007/02 - 2010/02
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Título/Title: "The occurrence, phenomenology and psychological correlates of Out-Of-Body and Near Death Experiences"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Craig Murray, Dr. David J. Wilde
Instituição/Institution: Manchester University, Manchester (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/06 - 2009/11

Título/Title: "Advancing methodology in the psychophysiology of stress: capturing the complexity of immunity"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Matt Bristow, Dr. Rachel Cook
Instituição/Institution: Department of Psychology, Anglia Ruskian University, Cambridge (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/07 - 2011/03

Título/Title: "Exploring the relationship between susceptibility to false memories and belief in and experience of the paranormal"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Christopher Charles French, Dr. Krissy Wilson
Instituição/Institution: Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Dep. of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK)
Duração prevista/Estimated duration: 2010/02 - 2011/09 

Título/Title: "Feedback Modulation of Visual Processing by Limbic Circuits: a functional connectivity approach to visual face processing / Modulação Retroactiva do Processamento Visual Medidada por Circuitos Límbicos: conectividade funcional dos circuitos envolvidos no processamento visual de faces"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutor Miguel de Sá e Sousa de Castelo-Branco, Dra. Cristina Januário, Dra. Solange Silva, Dra. Aldina Reis, Dra. Catarina Mateus, Dr. Miguel Cordeiro
Instituição/Institution: IBILI - Faculdade de Medicina, Coimbra (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2008/01 - 2011/02

Título/Title: "The Meaning-Switch - Investigation of Pre-Cognition in an Operationally Closed System"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Walter von Lucadou, Dr. Matthias Braeunig, Dr. Tilmann Faul
Instituição/Institution: T.REG Systems Research Labs, Staufen (Germany)
Duração /Duration: 2007/07 - 2009/07

Título/Title: "Psi Related Experiences and Spatialization: the use of geographic information systems to investigate spontaneous Psi Phenomena and experient profiling"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Roger Burrows, Dra. Madeleine Castro
Instituição/Institution: Spatial Informatics Research and the Anomalous Experiences Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of York (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2008/10 - 2010/06
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Título/Title: "Paranormal Belief and Well Being: An Exploratory of Cognitive-Perceptual Bias"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Neil Andrew Dagnall, Dr. Gary Munley, Dr. Andrew Parker
Instituição/Institution: The Manchester Metropolitan University, Research Institute of Health and Social Change, Manchester (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/09
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Título/Title: "Psicoendocrinologia do comportamento parental humano: Alterações hormonais, síndrome de couvade e responsividade parental em pais-expectantes"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutora Isabel Maria Pereira Leal, Prof. Doutor Rui Filipe Nunes Pais de Oliveira, Prof. Doutor Luís Adriano Neves Gonçalves Sobrinho, Dra. Rita Maria Morgado Gomez
Instituição/Institution: Centro de Investigação e Intervenção, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa (Portugal)
Duração /Duration: 2007/02 - 2009/01
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Título/Title: "Psychophysiological effects of human pheromones"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutor Francisco Gomes Esteves, Prof. Mats Olsson, Dr. Johan Lundstrom, Prof. Doutor Pedro Barbas de Albuquerque, Prof. Doutora Maria Benedita Monteiro, Prof. Doutora Maria Paula Carneiro, Dra. Patrícia Arriaga Ferreira
Instituição/Institution: Centro de Estudos e Intervenção Social, ISCTE, Lisboa (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/05 - 2010/10

Título/Title: "The effects of receiver/sender sex pairing, emotional and biological bond, and photic driving upon ganzfeld ESP task success"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Ben Roberts, Dr. Ian Hume, Dr. Laura Taylor
Instituição/Institution: Coventry University, Psychology Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry (UK)
Duração prevista/Estimated Duration: 2007/01 - 2011/09

Título/Title: "How do we learn to associate events separate in time: a study using trace auditory fear conditioning"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Marta de Aragão Pacheco Moita, Dra. Marta Guimarães
Instituição/Institution: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/01 - 2010/07

Título/Title: "The role of stress in cortico-basal ganglia loop processing and instrumental conditioning"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutor Nuno Jorge Carvalho de Sousa, Dr. Rui Manuel Fernandes da Costa, Dr. Eduardo Miguel Gonçalves Dias Ferreira, Prof. Doutor João José Cardoso Cerqueira, Dr. Pedo Alexandre Teixeira
Instituição/Institution: Life and Health Sciences Research Unit, School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/01 - 2010/02
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Título/Title: "Influências das Emoções e dos Sentimentos na Percepção do Tempo Cronológico"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Doutora Teresa Maria Morais Garcia-Marques, Dr. Alexandre Constâncio Fernandes
Instituição/Institution: Unidade de Investigação em Psicologia, do Desenvolvimento e da Educação, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa (Portugal)
Duração/Duration: 2007/02 - 2010/10
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Título/Title: "Event-related brain potential correlates of conscious and non-conscious processing in anxiety"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Anne Richards e Dr. Amanda Holmes, Dr. Emily Hannon
Instituição/Institution: Birkbeck College, University of London and Roehampton University, London (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/10 - 2010/11

Título/Title: "Cognitive and affective trait effects of meditation-training on brain and behaviour. An event-related longitudinal fMRI study"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Ulrike Halsband, Dr. Susanne Muller
Instituição/Institution: Department of Psychology/Neuropsychology, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Duração /Duration: 2007/03 - 2009/09

Título/Title: "The Measurement and Characterization of Charge Accumulation and Electromagnetic Energy Emissions from Bioenergy Healers: Part 2"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. William Joines
Instituição/Institution: Rhine Research Centre, Durham, North Carolina (USA)
Duração prevista/Estimated Duration: 2007/02 - 2011/09

Título/Title: "High-frequency oscillations and rhythmic slow activity during virtual navigation, REM sleep and wake-sleep transitions: Studies on intracranial recordings in humans"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Péter Halász, Dr. Zsófia Clemens, Dr. Csaba Borbély, Dr. Daniel Fabó
Instituição/Institution: Budapest-Bethel Epilepsy Center Foundation (BBEC), Budapest (Hungary)
Duração /Duration: 2008/01 - 2009/10
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Título/Title: "Enhancing Hit Rates on Psi Tests with Optimal Levels of Transliminality"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. James Houran
Instituição/Institution: Integrated Knowledge Systems Inc., Springfield (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2008/07
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Título/Title: "The relation of mind to body. Psychophysiological studies of the placebo effect"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Magne Arve Flaten, Prof. Oddmund Johansen, Dr. Terje Simonsen, Mr. Per M. Aslaksen, Mr. Peter Lyby, Dr. Espen Bjorkedal
Instituição/Institution: Department of Psychology, University of Tromso (Norway)
Duração/Duration: 2007/01 - 2010/05
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Título/Title: "Paranormal Healing, Paranormal Belief, and Physical and Psychological Well-Being"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Caroline Watt, Dr. Alison Easter
Instituição/Institution: Koestler Parapsychology Unit, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2009/03
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Título/Title: "Effects of hypnotizability on EEG and autonomic concomitants of imagery and emotion production"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Zvonikov Vyacheslav Michailovich, Prof. Stroganova Tatiana Alexandrovna, Dr. Anna Kirenskaya, Dr. Vladimir Novototsky-Vlasov, Mr. Andrey Chistyakov
Instituição/Institution: Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow (Russia)
Duração /Duration: 2007/06 - 2009/07
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Título/Title: "The sense of self in the brain: neural correlates of self-recognition"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Emmanouil (Manos) Tsakiris, Dr. Angela Sirigu, Prof. Patrick Haggard, Dr. Matteus Joffily
Instituição/Institution: Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2007/09 - 2010/01

Título/Title: "A Study to Assess the Validity of Applied Kinesiology (AK) as a Diagnostic Tool and as a Nonlocal Proximity Effect"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Stephan A. Schwartz, Dr. Ginette Nachman, Dr. William Frazer Morris
Instituição/Institution: Laboratories for Fundamental Research, California (USA)
Duração/Duration: 2007/02 - 2010/01

Título/Title: "Exploring the relationship between paranormal belief, the propensity to make the type I error and the detection of paranormal and weak signals amid visual and auditory noise"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Christine Anne Simmonds-Moore
Instituição/Institution: Liverpool Hope University (UK)
Duração/Duration: 2009/09 - 2011/01
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Título/Title: "Seeing the future: Exploring presentiment with eye gaze and pupillary dilation"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Dean Radin
Instituição/Institution: Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/01 - 2008/10
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Título/Title: "Experimental Investigation of a Psi Training Program"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dean Radin, Dr. Cassandra Vieten, Dr. Colin Cherot
Instituição/Institution: Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)
Duração /Duration: 2007/05 - 2009/01
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Título/Title: "Brain Activity During Psychokinetic Task - Research with Near Infrared Spectroscopy"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Mikio Yamamoto, Dr. Hideyuki Kokubo
Instituição/Institution: Institute for Living Body Measurements, International Research Institute, Chiba (Japan)
Duração /duration: 2007/02 - 2008/04
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Título/Title: "Seeing into the future: Temporally Reversed Implicit Perceptual Priming"
Investigadores/Researchers: Prof. Jonathan Wolf Schooler, Dr. Merill McSpadden
Instituição/Institution: Memory, Emotion, Thought and Awareness Labs, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Duração/Duration: 2007/05 - 2011/03
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Título/Title: "Effect of the comprehensive Art of Living yogic breathing programme on the physiological and psychological well-being"
Investigadores/Researchers: Dr. Sanja Kostrun, Dr. Irena Svenda, Dr. Sanja Kordic, Prof. Fahri Saatvcioglu, Mr. Hrvoje Tadic, Dr. Hujic Aleksandra
Instituição/Institution: The Art of Living Foundation Croatia, Zagreb (Croatia)
Duração /Duration: 2007/04 - 2009/09
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