Grants 2012

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Researchers
Institution
Duration
Database
Results

Enhancing psychokinesis task performance through the practice of imagery strategies: New psychophysiological approach (stage 2)

 
Alejandro Parra, Juan Corbetta  
Instituto de Psicología Paranormal, Asoc. Civil, Buenos Aires (Argentina)  
2013/02 - 2015/02  

The depersonalized brain: Psychophysiological correlates of cortical hyperexcitability associated with signs of depersonalization, derealization and dissociation, in non-clinical samples

 
Jason John Braithwaite  
Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK)  
2013/06 - 2015/09  

A test of thermodynamic entropy effects in anomalous cognition

 
Edwin May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha  
Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Palo Alto, California (USA)  
2013/03 - 2016/01  

Regularity encoding and deviance detection in the human auditory brainstem

 
Carles Escera, Katarzina Żarnowiec, Lilla Náfrádi  
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C), University of Barcelona (Spain)  
2013/07 - 2015/06  

Testing a methodological formula for consistent hit rates: Matching psi ability to task difficulty

 
James Houran, Rense Lange  
Integrated Knowledge Systems, Inc., Illinois (USA)  
2013/02 - 2014/09  

The body beyond the body

 
Marcello Costantini, Francesca Ferri  
Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, University "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti (Italy)  
2013/03 - 2015/01  

Motivational intensity in the prefrontal cortex

 
Stephen Fairclough, Christopher Burns  
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University (UK)  
2013/03 - 2014/07  

Out-of-body experiences: An exploration of phenomenological features and development of an experience screening questionnaire

 
David Wilde  
Nottingham Trent University - NTU (UK)  
2013/04 - 2015/02  

Inferring memory strength through “Mind reading”

 
Christoph T. Weidemann, Ting Wang  
College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University (UK)  
2013/11 - 2015/11  
 

The interpretation and evaluation of meaningful coincidences suggestive of psi communication in everyday life

 
Robin Wooffitt, Germaine Gunther  
Anomalous Experiences Research Unit, Dep. of Sociology, University of York (UK)  
2013/09 - 2018/01  
 

The embodied experience of time: modulations of mindfulness meditation

 
Marc Christoph Wittmann, Karin Meissner, Stefan Schmidt  
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich - LMU (Germany)  
2013/05 - 2015/01  

Libet revisited - The effects of mindfulness meditation training on voluntary action and on time perception: a controlled study with experienced meditators

 
Stefan Schmidt, Han-Gue Jo, Marc Christoph Wittmann  
Dep. of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)  
2013/05 - 2015/03  

A rasch scaling validation of a core “Near-Death Experience (NDE)”: A critical replication and extension

 
Rense Lange  
Integrated Knowledge Systems, Inc., Illinois (USA)  
2013/02 - 2014/03  
 

Psychophysical interactions with a single-photon double-slit optical system

 
Dean Radin, Arnaud Delorme, Leena Michel  
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)  
2013/06 - 2015/02  

Neurophysiological mechanisms of aging: Novel view of old concepts

 
Maria José de Oliveira Diógenes Nogueira, Alexandre de Mendoça, Antonina Pereira, Bruno Teixeira da Silva, Raquel Dias  
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2014/03 - 2017/01  

To see or not to see? Hallucinations in multidisciplinary perspective

 
Mattia Riccardi, Frank Larøi, Sofia Miguens, Tommaso Piazza, Ana Pinheiro, João Pinto, Manuela Teles, Charles Travis  
Instituto de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto - FLUP (Portugal)  
2013/09 - 2015/07  

Autobiographical memory or just information in cases of the reincarnation type? A field-study in Thailand and Turkey for research training and development

 
Jürgen Keil, Roderick Garton
School of Psychology, University of Tasmania (Australia)
Canceled

Forefeeling guilty knowledge - An innovative approach in presentiment research

 
Wolfgang Ambach, Alexander Siller  
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP), Freiburg (Germany)  
2013/03 - 2016/02  
 

Hematological and psychophysiological correlates of anomalous information reception in mediums

 
Julie Beischel, Shawn Tassone, Mark Boccuzzi  
The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential, Tucson (USA)  
2013/05 - 2015/06  

Body and soul: A computational neurophysiological and qualitative investigation of Ganzfeld-induced imagery

 
Alexander Sumich, Daniel Wilson, Nicholas Blagden  
Nottingham Trent University (NTU), Division of Psychology (UK)  
2013/04 - 2017/09  
 

The psychophysiology of human attachment and stress

 
Angela Clow, Lisa Thorn, Andrea Oskis, Nina Smyth  
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London (UK)  
2013/10 - 2015/09  

Mechanisms of self-other distinction in mirror-touch synaesthesia

 
Michael Joseph Banissy, James Moore  
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London (UK)  
2013/10 - 2016/04  

Human motor re-learning – The use of sensor information fusion

 
Sandra Maria Caldas da Silva Mouta, Miguel Velhote Correia, Carolina Vila-Chã, Cláudia Silva, Ana Silva, Carla Borges, António Salazar, Dominic Noy  
INESC - Porto (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2015/09  
 

Cerebral activity associated with telepathy: a controlled, blinded, high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging block design echoplanar imaging blood oxygen level-dependent study of cerebral blood oxygenation

 
Simon Dein, Basant Puri
Glyndŵr University, Wrexham (UK); Department of Imaging, Hammersmith Hospital, London (UK)
Canceled
 

The impact of future relevance on dream content and sleep-dependent memory processing

 
Erin J. Wamsley, Robert Stickgold, Nam Nguyen  
Furman University, Greenville (USA)  
2013/05 - 2016/11  

Neural bases of time processing: Combining neuroimaging techniques and clinical evidence

 
Patrizia Bisiacchi, Gianna Maria Toffolo, Vincenza Tarantino, Elias Casula, Giovanni Mento, Demis Basso  
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova (Italy)  
2013/03 - 2016/04  

Neurobiological correlates of empathy in couples: A study of central and peripheral measures

 
Joana Fernandes Pereira Coutinho, Cledna Patricia de Oliveira Silva, Jean Decety, Kristin Perrone McGovern, Óscar Filipe Coelho Neves Gonçalves, Vânia Andrea Sousa Gonçalves Moreira de Lima  
Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)  
2013/05 - 2017/07  

Interaction of medial and lateral temporal lobe in memory expression: Insights from patient and fMRI data

 
Ana Luísa Nunes Raposo, José Frederico Henzler Ferreira Marques, José Guilherme Cortez Pimentel  
Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/04 - 2016/01  

Psychophysiological studies into task-set inertia in switching paradigms

 
Lisa Evans, Edward Wilding  
School of Psychology, Cardiff University (UK)  
2013/04 - 2014/12  

Dissociating familiarity and conceptual priming with event-related potentials

 
Edward Wilding, Lisa Evans  
School of Psychology, Cardiff University (UK)  
2013/04 - 2015/01  

Prefrontal electrical stimulation in non-depressed reduces levels of reported negative affects from daily stressors

 
Frederic Boy, Adelaide Austin  
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University and Institute of Life Science (ILS2) – Imaging Centre, College of Medicine (UK)  
2014/01 - 2017/05
Inconclusive project

Eye-brain dynamics during the emergence of three-dimensional perceptual awareness in Humans

 
Rafael Malach, Amos Arieli  
Department of Neurobiology - The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel)  
2013/07 - 2022/04
Inconclusive project  
 

Psychological and psychophysiological factors in sexual desire and behaviour

 
Rui Miguel dos Santos Amaro da Costa, Tânia F. Oliveira  
ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/04 - 2015/06  

Clinical parapsychology: Counselling experiences of clients who report anomalous experiences and the training needs of therapists

 
Elizabeth Roxburgh  
Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP), Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, The University of Northampton (UK)  
2013/07 - 2015/10  

Retinotopic reorganization of the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf individuals due to neuroplascticity

 
Jorge Manuel Castelo Branco de Albuquerque Almeida, Bradford Zack Mahon, Yanchao Bi, Óscar Filipe Coelho Neves Gonçalves  
Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)  
2013/05 - 2015/11  

Dynamic cortical and nucleus accumbens networks in humans: Combining intracranial and EEG recordings

 
Bryan Strange, Javier J. Gonzalez-Rosa, Juan A. Barcia, Stephan Moratti, Raffael Kaplan, Marijn Kroe  
Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Technology University of Madrid (UPM) and Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Clínico San Carlos - Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Instituto de Investigación Sanitario IdISSC (Spain)  
2013/06 - 2016/10  

EEG analysis of auditory and visual stimuli in normal controls

 
William Bunney, Blynn Bunney, James Fallon, Julie Patterson, Steven G. Potkin, Richard Stein, Joseph Wu  
Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, The Regents of the University of California, Irvine (USA)  
2013/05 - 2016/10  

EEG correlates of mental entanglement at distance

 
Patrizio Tressoldi, Francesco Salvadori, Patrizio Caini, Simone Melloni, Giorgio Gagliardi, Mirko de Vita, Alessandro Ferrini  
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova and Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca Biopsicocibernetica, Bologna (Italy)  
2013/03 - 2016/04  

Implicit and explicit processing of emotion in healthy adult ageing

 
Sarah MacPherson  
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Department of Psychology, PPLS, The University of Edinburgh (UK)  
2013/08 - 2014/10  

An investigation of the I Ching using the Q-sort method and a PK-RNG design

 
Lance Storm  
Brain and Cognition Centre, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide and Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Incorporated, Gladesville (Australia)  
2013/03 - 2014/06  

Neural mechanisms of cognitive bias

 
Rui Filipe Nunes Pais de Oliveira, Ana Félix, Sara Cardoso  
ISPA, CRL, Lisboa and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras (Portugal)  
2013/09 - 2020/11  
 

A direct test of the binding by synchrony hypothesis in humans: The neural correlates of coherent object perception

 
Miguel Castelo-Branco, Maria Ribeiro, João Duarte, Gabriel Costa  
IBILI, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)  
2013/11 - 2016/01  

The role of the core and extended face networks in visual perception and high level social cognition

 
Miguel Castelo-Branco, Marco Simões, Carlos Amaral, Gregor Philipiak, José Rebola, João Castelhano  
IBILI, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)  
2013/11 - 2016/01  

Contributions of parent-infant psychophysiology during dyadic interactions to child development

 
Raquel Alexandra Gonçalves Costa, Iva Tendais, Ana Conde, Catarina Tojal  
ISLA Campus Lisboa, Laureate International Universities, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/10 - 2016/11  
 

Neuroendocrine underpinnings of social bonds to parents and peers in preschool children. Oxytocin and cortisol on adopted children and non-adopted controls

 
Nuno Manuel Correia Torres, Manuela Veríssimo, Antonio J. Santos, Jaak Panksepp, Lígia Monteiro, Leandra Marília Marques Coelho  
Research Group on Developmental Psychology of UIPCDE (Unidade de Investigação em Psicologia Cognitiva, do Desenvolvimento e da Educação) of ISPA-IU, Lisboa (Portugal) and Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, Neuroscience Program. Washington State University (USA)  
2013/09 - 2018/11  
 

Impact of body image related variables on the psychophysiological indicators of human sexual response: comparative study with a clinical and non clinical sample

 
Maria João Alvarez Martins, Pedro Nobre, Ellen Laan, Sandra Byers, Lisa Vicente, Nuno Monteiro Pereira, Patrícia Pascoal  
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade Lisboa and SEXLAB (Laboratórios de Investigação em Sexualidade Humana), Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)  
2013/03 - 2017/01  

How collaboration in psychotherapy becomes therapeutic: A study of interactive and psychophysiological processes in good and poor outcome cases

 
Eugénia Maria Ribeiro Pereira, Adriana Sampaio, Cledna Patricia Silva, António P. Ribeiro, Adam O. Horvath, William B. Stiles, Inês Sousa, Joana Mourão, Dulce Pinto, Zita Sousa  
Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPsi/UM), Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2017/01  

Circuit mechanisms of spatial attention in the zebrafish midbrain

 
Michael Brian Orger, Sabine L. Renninger  
Fundação Champalimaud, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2017/07  
 

Embodied cognition: The nature of time encoding in the brain?

 
Joseph James Paton, Tiago Monteiro, Thiago Gouvêa, Sofia Soares  
Fundação Champalimaud, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2016/09  
 

Interfacing technology with the brain: Novel materials for implantable neural devices

 
Adam Kampff, Elvira Fortunato, Pedro Barquinha, Joana Neto, Joana Nogueira  
Fundação Champalimaud and CENIMAT - Materials Research Center, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2016/09  
 

Defining the functional architecture of motion vision sensitive visual-motor circuits

 
Eugenia Chiappe, Tomás Cruz  
Fundação Champalimaud, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/08 - 2016/10  

Effects of conditional foxp2 deletion on motor-sequence learning

 
Catherine Ann French  
Fundação Champalimaud, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/06 - 2016/07  

Bridging between events and their consequences: The role of prefrontal cortex

 
Ekaterina Vinnik, Marta de Aragão Pacheco Moita, Alfonso Renart  
Fundação Champalimaud, Lisboa (Portugal)  
2013/11 - 2018/03  
 

Characterising developmental trajectories of brain function from childhood into adolescence

 
Kristin Robin Laurens, Ruth E. Roberts  
Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK)  
2013/04 - 2017/09  

Enhancing hypnotic suggestibility with transcranial direct current stimulation

 
Devin Blair Terhune  
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, Experimental Psychology (UK)  
2014/03 - 2015/02  

Brain-to-brain communication enabled with intracortical microstimulation

 
Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, Miguel Santos Pais Vieira  
Duke University, Durham (USA)  
2013/04 - 2015/10  

Using multisensory illusions to investigate medically unexplained symptoms

 
Roger Newport  
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham (UK)  
2013/10 - 2017/02  
 

Predicting your decision while you make up your mind – An intracranial human study of the neural underpinning of decision making

 
Uri Muz Maoz, Liad Mudrik, Ian Ross, Adam Mamelak, Ralph Adolphs  
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (USA)  
2013/05 - 2015/02  

How children learn to use statistical regularities in their environment

 
Marieke van Asselen, Ana Rodrigues Pina, José Rebola
Instituto Biomédico de Investigação de Luz e Imagem - IBILI, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Canceled

Temporal modulation of the subventricular zone neural stem cell niche by choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid derived factors

 
João Carlos Cruz de Sousa, Fernanda Marques, Joana Palha, Ana Luísa Falcão, Ashley Novais  
ICVS/3B's - Laboratório Associado (ICVS/3B's), Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)  
2013/08 - 2019/01  

Consciousness disconnects during sleep

 
Giovanni Piantoni  
Cortical Physiology Lab, Massachusets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA) and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)  
2013/09 - 2016/06  
 

EEG functional connectivity in post-hypnotic amnesia

 
Marios Kittenis, Graham Jamieson  
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, The University of Edinburgh (UK) and Neuropsychology Lab, School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences, The University of New England, Armindale (Australia)  
2013/06 - 2016/04  

The magic of perception: Investigating misdirection and change blindness in magic using the novel combination of gaze behaviour and ERPs

 
Tim J. Smith, Rebecca Nako  
Dynamic Visual Cognition (DVC) Lab, Dept. of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)  
2013/04 - 2016/09  
 

Roles of the reward system in sleep, dreaming, and the consolidation of emotional memories

 
Sophie Schwartz, Lampros Perogamvros, Kristoffer Aberg, Virginie Sterpenich  
Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva (Switzerland)  
2013/10 - 2016/02  

System mechanisms of attention: Toward the nature of hypnotizability

 
Zinaida I. Storozheva, A. V.Kirenskaya, V. Y. Novototsky-Vlaso, A. N. Chistyakov, V. V. Myamlin, S. V. Solntseva  
P. K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology and Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow (Russia)  
2013/04 - 2017/05  

The study of experimenter effects in the replication of psi experiments: A global initiative

 
Marilyn Schlitz, Daryl Bem, Arnaud Delorme  
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)  
2013/07 - 2015/04  

Visual categorization of images of live and deceased individuals

 
Arnaud Delorme, Dean Radin  
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Toulouse (France) and Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)  
2014/02 - 2016/04  

Using hypnosis to distinguish between cognitive and metacognitive conscious experience

 
Pedro Alexandre Magalhães de Saldanha da Gama, Axel Cleeremans, Zoltan Dienes, Amir Raz  
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)  
2013/11 - 2015/05  

Sleep state misperception mispercieved

 
Eus J. W. Van Someren, J. Ramautar  
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Dept. Sleep & Cognition, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)  
2014/06 - 2017/01  

REM-sleep, the regulation of self-conscious emotion and hyperarousal in psychophysiological insomnia

 
Lucia Talamini, Ekaterini Georgopoulou, Eus Van Someren  
University of Amsterdam, Psychology, Dept. Brain and Cognition (The Netherlands) and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Dept. Sleep & Cognition, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)  
2015/11 - 2017/09  

Telepathic communication wave function collapse

 
Karla Galdamez, Wolfgang Baer, Michael Ibison  
Nascent Systems Inc., Carmel Valley, CA (USA); Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Texas (USA)  
2013/07 - 2020/07  

Contemplative development mapping project

 
Willoughby Britton, Catherine Kerr, Harold Roth, Jared Lindahl, Jake Davis, Chris Kaplan, Nathan Fisher  
The Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Brown University and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University Medical School, Providence (USA)  
2013/07 - 2017/09  

The neural basis of magical ideation: A multimodal imaging study in twin subjects

 
Paolo Brambilla, Gioia Negri, Sara Piccin, Giuseppe Cabras, Corrado Fagnani  
Universitá delgi Studi di Milano and Unit of Epidemiology of the Italian Institute of Health, Rome (Italy)  
2014/01 - 2019/07  

One ear is better than two; but why and when?

 
Veena Kumari, Elena Antonova  
Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London (UK)  
2013/03 - 2015/03  

Synchronicity and psi: A controlled comparison

 
John Palmer, Nick Edington  
Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)  
2013/03 - 2015/01  

Exploring the interactions between paranormal belief and disbelief and subjective experiences with the Shakti helmet

 
Christine Simmonds-Moore, Don Rice, Ron Hopkins, Richard LaFleur, Chase O’Gwin  
Psychology Department, University of West Georgia, Carrollton (USA)  
2013/09 - 2016/10