…investigate spontaneous cases with Edmund Gurney and FWH Myers for Phantasms of the Living (1886). His later writings increasingly explained mediumship and poltergeist claims through fraud, conjuring and witness error. Survival evidence he could not explain away he believed could be accounted for by ESP. Life and Career Podmore was…
…is peculiarly her own, and consists in writing with her finger, and leaving behind marks as of a lead pencil, while no such article is in her possession or even in the room. She will also take hold of the hand of the sitters, and cause the same phenomenon of…
…by other researchers. He has published widely on optical and mind-matter experiments, while also writing accessible books that helped popularise modern parapsychology. Some scientists have challenged his statistical results and interpretations, but others have treated his work as a serious empirical programme. Life and Career Early Life Dean I Radin…
…colleagues to test whether predictions generated from perceptual patterns automatically influence the processing of a current stimulus. Ambiguous Necker lattices and unambiguous variants were used. Brain responses and reaction times were measured while manipulating what had been seen before in the immediate past by the participants. In Experiment 1, brain…
…showed a modest increase of scoring level, but going to a two million bit trial size gave confounding results with a highly significant backwards effect – the high and low outcomes were reversed relative to operator intention.12Dobyns et al. (2004). PEAR also assessed manual vs automatic trial sequencing in groups…
…of a dream mentioned to him by his wife seemed accurately to match a rail accident in which he was involved a few days later. Anon. Automatic revivals of memory. Journal 12, 1905, 102-4. The whereabouts of mislaid film negatives are revealed in a dream. Anon. Cases. Journal 13, 1907,…
…protocol that would eliminate the possibility of fraud and flaws. This led to the development of the automatic ganzfeld, or ‘autoganzfeld’, by Honorton and colleagues at the Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL) in which sequences and outcomes were entirely controlled by a computer. Eleven studies carried out in these methodologically tight…
…the subjects and lookers in separate rooms. In these tests the subjects were not asked to guess whether they were being looked at or not. Instead, their galvanic skin response was recorded automatically, as in lie-detector tests. In a randomized series of trials the lookers either looked at the subject’s…
…to reach cases early enough so that he or a colleague could record a child’s statements in writing or on tape before assessing the accuracy of the memories, but it proved difficult to do this in the Asian countries in which he concentrated his research. As Stevenson built up a…
