Title	Researchers	Institution	Duration
Exceptional human experiences: Prevalence, family background, and early maladaptive schemas	José Virgílio Gouveia Baltasar, Carlos Manuel Lopes Pires	Centro de Investigação em Estudos Regionais e Locais - CIERL, Funchal (Portugal)	2015/03 - 2016/12 Inconclusive Project
The dissociated self: An investigation of emotional responses to a new body-threat task in those predisposed to anomalous body experiences, dissociation and disembodiment	Jason John Braithwaite	School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK)	2015/09 - 2018/07
Optogenetic circuit dissection of neural instructive signals for cerebellum-dependent learning	Dominique Leon Pritchett, Catarina Albergaria, Megan R. Carey	Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa (Portugal)	2015/06 - 2018/09
Electrophysiological correlates of the incorporation of recent memory sources into REM and non-REM dreams and of levels of insight following REM and non-REM dream interpretation	Mark Blagrove, Chris Edwards, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Perrine Ruby	College of Human and Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, Swansea University (UK)	2015/03 - 2017/11
The clinical gut: Examining the cognitive processes and neural underpinnings of judgments, feelings of rightness and its impact on information seeking	Ana Sofia Bilreiro Jacinto Braga, Anne Krendl, Cara Charissa Lewis, Cilia Witteman, Elizabeth Collins, João Braga	Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social (CIS-IUL), ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal); Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences - Indiana University Bloomington (USA)	2015/05 - 2021/02
Following my heart: Interoceptive sensitivity in infant cognitive development	Emmanouil Tsakiris, Lara Maister	Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)	2015/09 - 2017/07
Recursive consciousness training: Using neurofeedback to induce altered states	Amir Raz, Niels Birbaumer, Robert T Thibault	Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (Canada); Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen (Germany)	2015/09 - 2017/11
Maternal brain gain: Changes in neural representations and body perception during pregnancy	Jane Aspell, Flavia Cardini	Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK)	2015/11 - 2019/06
Internal and external world in parietal cortex	Paolo Capotosto	Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Science, University "G. D'Annunzio", Chieti (Italy)	2015/02 - 2016/09
Autonomic nerve recordings applied as a novel psychophysiological tool for Consciousness Science	Hugo Dyfrig Critchley, Peter Taggart, Yrsa Sverrisdottir	Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex (UK); Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford (UK)	2015/09 - 2021/11
How memories form: Does consistency in neural activity promote successful learning?	Louis Renoult, Fraser Smith	School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)	2015/01 - 2019/05
Individual differences in psychosocial and neurological predictors of surveillance detection via extrasensory means	Ross Friday	University of Greenwich, London (UK)	2015/05 -2023/07
From audio-visual perception to action: The processing of spatio-temporal components	Sandra Mouta, Joana Vieira	AssociationCCG/ZGDV – Centro de Computação Gráfica, Guimarães (Portugal)	2015/10 - 2019/03
Measuring the self: Behavioural and neural correlates of bodily awareness	Emmanuele Tidoni, Gaetano Tieri, Matteo Candidi, Salvatore Maria Aglioti	Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)	2015/02 - 2017/03
Individual differences in infants' stress reactivity	Edward Charles Tronick, Erin Duffy, Jennifer A. DiCorcia	Child Development Unit, University of Massachusetts Boston (USA)	2015/04 - 2018/06
Sacred values underlying conflict proneness: A neuroimaging study of religious and nationalist radicals	Adolf Tobena, Clara Pretus, Joseph Hilferty, Oscar Vilarroya, Scott Atran	Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine UAB, Bellaterra Campus (Spain)	2015/02 - 2019/04
A study of the relationship between mindfulness, distraction and brain stimulation	Fabrice Parmentier, Javier Garcia-Campayo, Margalida Gili-Planas, Mauro García-Toro, Pilar Andrés	University of the Balearic Islands, Palma (Spain); Hospital Universitario Miguelñ Servet, Zaragoza (Spain)	2015/06 - 2019/07
Cognitive mechanisms of word learning: Contributions from amnesic patients and healthy ageing	Tânia Patrícia Gregório Fernandes, Ana Luísa Nunes Raposo, Maria Isabel Segurado Pavão Martins Catarino Petiz, Rita Isabel Saraiva Jerónimo	Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa - FP-ULisboa (Portugal)	2016/02 - 2019/07
Decoding neural representations of human tool use from fMRI response patterns	Stephanie Batista Rossit, Fraser Wilson Smith	School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)	2015/10 - 2020/11
Examination of brain coordination dynamics underlying hypnosis and volitional acts using intracranial electroencephalography	Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Navinder Persaud, Taufik A. Valiante	Hospital for Sick Children, Neurology, University of Toronto (Canada); Toronto Western Hospital (Canada)	2015/05 - 2017/11
The role of astrocytes in complex cognitive processing	João Filipe Pedreira de Oliveira, Joana Correia, Luísa Pinto, Nuno Dias, Sónia Guerra Gomes, Vanessa Sardinha, Inês Caetano Campos	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS/3B's- Government Associate Laboratory, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2015/10 - 2019/11
Mind to mind: Brain dynamics of distant focused intention for consciousness expansion	Anabela Ventura Carraça, Carlos Miguel Loureiro Siopa	LIMMIT - Laboratory of Mind-Matter Interaction with Therapeutic Intention, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)	2015/04 - 2019/04
Pushing consciousness and selfhood towards their boundaries - An EEG neurophenomenological study	Joseph Glicksohn, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan	Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (Israel); Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti, Assisi (Italy)	2015/02 - 2019/03
Training anomalous cognition in a motor task with subliminal auditory feedback	John Albert Palmer	Rhine Research Center, Durham, NC (USA)	2015/04 - 2018/02
Inhibitory processing in the aging brain: Disentangling the effects of age, chronotype, time of day and executive control	José Augusto Simões Gonçalves Leitão, Ana Cardoso Allen Gomes, Chiara Guerrini, Isabel Maria Barbas dos Santos	Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental - CINEICC, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)	2016/01 - 2020/09
The role of affective dimensions in the perception of facial expressions of emotion: Neuropsychophysiological, developmental, and neuroimaging examination of an affective predictive coding framework	Fernando Ricardo Ferreira Santos, Eva Inês Costa Martins, Francisco Sá Ferreira Loureiro Pipa, Manuel Fernando Santos Barbosa, Michelle de Haan, Pedro Manuel Rocha Almeida, Tiago de Oliveira Paiva, Torsten Baldeweg	Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology - Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (Portugal)	2015/10 - 2021/01
Induced brain plasticity after perinatal stroke: Structural and functional connectivity	Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Alfredo García-Alix, Carme Fons, Clément François, Jordi Muchart, Laura Bosch, Mónica Rebollo, Pablo Ripollés	Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona (Spain); Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Esplugues de Llobregat (Spain)	2015/02 - 2017/09
Anomalous/paranormal experiences reported by nurses themselves and in relation with theirs patients in hospitals: Examining psychological, personality and phenomenological variables	Alejandro Enrique Parra	Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina)	2015/03 - 2017/03
Signal or noise? Using a psychophysical approach to investigate the effects of attention and neurofeedback training on electrocortical predictive anticipatory activity (PAA) to true random stimuli	Michael Franklin, Jonathan Schooler, Stephen Baumgart	Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara (USA)	2015/04 - 2024/01
The impact of lipid signaling modulation in cognition	Tiago Gil Rodrigues Oliveira, Isabel Maria Sousa Castanho, Neide Marina Vieira Pereira, Rita Catarina Ribeiro da Silva, Vítor Manuel da Silva Pinto	Life and Health Sciences Institute - ICVS, School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2015/05 - 2019/09
Genetics of psychic ability	Dean Radin, Garret Yount, Garry Nolan	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (USA); Stanford University (USA)	2015/07 - 2019/06
Psi-Q: A smartphone testing suite for psi ability	Dean Radin, Arnaud Delorme	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (USA)	2015/07 - 2017/07
The neurophysiology of vocal imitation of speech	Patricia Martine Adank, Joseph Devlin	UCL, Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, Division of Psychology and Language, London (UK)	2015/10 - 2017/11
EEG localization and individual variability in response to emotional stimuli	William E. Bunney, Blynn G. Bunney, James Fallon, Joseph C. Wu, Julie Patterson, Richard Alan Stein	The Regents of the University of California, Irvine (USA)	2017/03 - 2021/05
Vestibular updating and the continuity of awareness	Patrick Haggard, Elisa Raffaella Ferre,Maria Gallagher,Giulia Ellena	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UK)	2015/10 - 2017/11
Cortical excitability and connectivity in the lifespan: a neurophysiological study	Anna Fertonani, Cornelia Pirulli,Alice Bollini	IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (Italy)	2015/09 - 2019/06
Facial and bodily temperature maps of emotions	Maria Lucia Martins das Neves Garrido, Lisa Katharina Kuhn, Nicholas Pound	Division of Psychology, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge (UK)	2015/01 - 2022/11 Inconclusive project
The mindful eye: Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in meditators and non-meditators	Veena Kumari, Elena Antonova	Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (UK)	2015/04 - 2017/01
Identifying and characterizing the neuronal circuits required for nutrient choice and their effects on aging	Carlos Ribeiro, Ana Paula Elias, Matthew D. W. Piper, Samantha Herbert, Samuel Walker	Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa (Portugal)	2015/05 - 2017/07
Cryptochrome (CRY) and intention	Yung-Jong Shiah, Hsu-Liang Hsieh, Dean Radin	Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling of the National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (China); Photobiology Lab, Taipei, Taiwan (China)	2015/09 - 2017/06
Neurofeedback-based adaptive audiovisual tutorial for enhancing multi-modal learning	Rainer Wilhelm Goebel, Gal Raz, Talma Hendler	Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht University (The Netherlands); The Medical Research Infrastructure and health services fund at the Tel Aviv Medical center (Israel)	2015/12 -2023/05
The impact of music training on reading and mathematical abilities of normal and reading disabled children: a behavioral and neuroimaging longitudinal study	Maria de São Luís Vasconcelos da Fonseca e Castro Schöner, Christian Gaser, Daniela da Costa Coimbra, Marta Sofia Pinto Martins	Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at University of Porto, FPCEUP / Centre for Psychology at University of Porto (Portugal); Structural Brain Mapping Group/ Department of Psychiatry - Jena University Hospital (Germany)	2015/10 - 2019/09
A study of heterogeneity in parapsychological databases	Peter Amalric Bancel	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (USA); Institut Métapsychique International, Paris (France)	2015/06 - 2018/05
Neural correlates of tracking changing positions of objects	Christina Jayne Howard, Matthew K Belmonte	Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University (UK)	2015/02 - 2017/07
Affiliative touch & Emotion regulation	Francis McGlone, Peter Cannon, Ralph Pawling, Susannah Claire Walker	School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University (UK); Massey University, Albany (New Zealand)	2015/10 - 2023/10
Neural mechanisms of social cognition in zebrafish	Ana Rita Silva Martins Nunes	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras (Portugal)	2015/05 - 2019/11
A question of belief: An analysis of item content in paranormal belief questionnaires	Lance Storm, Ken Drinkwater, Anthony Jinks	Brain and Cognition Centre, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia); Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care, Manchester (UK)	2015/04 - 2017/07
Proteotoxic insults and synaptic dysfunction in the aging brain	Cláudio Emanuel Moreira Gomes, Andreas Martin Grabrucker, Joana Margarida Lopes da Silva Cristóvão, Javier Fernandez, Rodrigo David, Mariana Romão, Simone Hagmeyer	FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (Portugal); Neurocenter of Ulm University (Germany)	2015/06 - 2019/01
An integrative approach to the neural basis of hypnotic suggestibility	Devin Blair Terhune	Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)	2015/04 - 2017/09
Neural basis of mother-child relationship processes: Neural events, theta dynamics, and oxytocin	Michael J Crowley, Omri Weisman, Richard M. Pasco Fearon, William Moran, Yael Shmueli-Goetz, Lauren Vazquez	Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven (USA)	2015/10 - 2021/09
Cognitive and personality differences in supernatural belief	Ian Scott Baker, David Sheffield, Malcolm Schofield, Paul Staples	College of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Derby (UK)	2015/06 - 2017/10
Changes in subjective time as indication of increased mindfulness after meditation	Marc Christoph Wittmann	Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany); Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2015/04 - 2019/06
Development and implementation of a comprehensive survey of secular American mediums	Julie Beischel, Chad Mosher, Mark Boccuzzi	The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential, Tucson (USA)	2015/07 - 2018/06
Multimodal mapping of visual motion perceptual decision: Dissecting the role of different motion integration areas in visual surface reconstruction	Miguel de Sá e Sousa de Castelo Branco, Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa, Gilberto Silva, João Valente Duarte, Ricardo Martins	ICNAS - Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, Coimbra (Portugal); IBILI - Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, Coimbra (Portugal)	2016/02 - 2017/10
Lateralisation of cognitive functions in the brain: Typical vs. atypical patterns	Deborah J Serrien	School of Psychology, University of Nottingham (UK)	2015/10 - 2018/11
Using neural stimulation to modulate paranormal beliefs	Miguel Farias, Ute Kreplin	Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement, Coventry University (UK)	2015/12 - 2017/10
Effects of neurofeedback on functional connectivity and EEG power density	Pedro Jose Montoya Jimenez, Beatriz Rey Solaz, Inmaculada Riquelme, Miguel Angel Munoz Garcia, Niels Birbaumer	Research Institute on Health Sciences, University of Balearic Islands, Palma (Spain)	2015/03 - 2019/06
Remote meditation support - A multimodal distant intention experiment	Stefan Schmidt, Han-gue Jo, Marc Wittmann, Thilo Hinterberger,Wolfgang Ambach	Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany); Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg (Germany)	2015/05 - 2019/01
Are free will and moral responsibility real or illusory? On the causal role of consciousness in decision-making, a combined EEG and intracranial study	Uri M. Maoz	California Institute of Technology – Caltech, Pasadena (USA)	2016/02 - 2019/06
Demixing and visualizing neural population activity in higher cortical areas	Dmitry Kobak, Christian Machens	Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa (Portugal)	2015/01 - 2017/02
Brain-to-brain communication: Evaluating the macro-entanglement hypothesis using fMRI technology	Leanna J. Standish	University of Washington, Radiology Department Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center, Kenmore (USA)	2016/02 - 2019/05
Embodiment of the mind: Disentangling motor and cognitive processes during decision making with prior expectations	Christoph Thomas Weidemann, Flavia Filimon	College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University (UK)	Canceled
Is the matrix-experiment really a robust and artifact free experimental model to demonstrate generalized entanglement effects?	Harald Walach	Institute of Transcultural Health Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder (Germany)	2016/01 - 2021/03
Skin Conductance Feedback Meditation (SCFM) – Exploring the role of skin conductance in meditative practice	Thilo Hinterberger	Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Clinic of the University of Regensburg (Germany)	2016/03 - 2017/08
The role of dopamine in behavioral exploration and action selection	Aaron Christopher Koralek	Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Lisboa (Portugal)	2015/03 - 2018/06
Gliogenesis control of brain neuroplasticity, neurophysiology and cognitive function	Luísa Alexandra Meireles Pinto, Ana Rita Machado dos Santos, António Maria Restolho Mateus Pinheiro, Joana Sofia da Silva Correia, João Filipe Pedreira de Oliveira, João Miguel Bessa Peixoto, Nuno Dinis Alves, Vítor Manuel da Silva Pinto	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS/3B's- Government Associate Laboratory, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal); Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2015/09 - 2019/10
Psychophysiological detection of feigned memory complaints	Sara Cavaco, Filomena Gomes	Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Hospital Santo António (Portugal); Faculdade de Medicina do Porto (Portugal)	2016/05 - 2023/11
Neurochemical substrates of neurofeedback	Tomas Ros, Nathalie Ginovart	Interfacultary Center for Neuroscience, University of Geneva (Switzerland); Division of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospitals Geneva (Switzerland)	2016/04 - 2020/09
The role of experimenter and participant mindset in the replication of psi experiments: Phase II of a global initiative	Marilyn Schlitz	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (USA)	2015/07 - 2017/07
An examination of the effects of mood and emotion on a real-world computer system and networking environment	John G. Kruth	Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)	2015/05 - 2019/01
Episodic memory enhancement in aging: the role of cognitive training combined with (bilateral) tDCS in the medial-temporal cortex and cerebellum on episodic memory performance in the elderly	Mário Manuel Rodrigues Simões, Filipe Fernandes, Jorge Evandro de Araújo Alves, Marcel Simis, Ana Rita Simões Martins, Jorge Almeida	CINEICC - Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental/Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)	2015/07 - 2022/03
The Selfield: Optimizing precognition research	Mario Varvoglis, Peter Bancel	Institut Metapsychique International, Paris (France); Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (USA)	2015/09 - 2018/07
Hypnosis unfolds: Hypnotic suggestion and patterns of whole-brain dynamics	Marios Kittenis	Department of Psychology - School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)	2016/06 - 2023/01 Inconclusive project
Psi performance in attenuated electromagnetic fields	Michelle Fauver, Glenn Hartelius, Richard Knowles	California Institute of Integral Studies, Embodied Consciousness Research Group, San Francisco (USA)	2015/01 - 2024/05
Exploring unconscious knowledge: Individual differences in ideomotor response	Jeremy Olson, Amir Raz, Mathieu Landry	Raz Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, McGill University, Montreal (Canada); Montreal Neurological Institute (Canada)	2015/08 - 2017/06
Neural oscillations underlie individual differences in brightness perception	James Stuart Peter Macdonald	Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London (UK)	2015/11 - 2021/07
Void consciousness: Investigating the neural network correlates of an exceptional meditative experience with EEG-MREG	Ulf Winter, Pierre LeVan, Stefan Martin Schmidt	Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany); Dept. of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2015/09 - 2020/03
The Aging Social Brain - Neural and behavioral age-related changes in social cognition and decision-making	João Eduardo Marques Teixeira, Manuel Fernando Santos Barbosa, Fernando Ricardo Ferreira Santos, Pedro Manuel Rocha Almeida, Hugo Daniel Leão Sousa	Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)	2014/11 – 2018/01
Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation	Antonino Raffone, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Henk P. Barendregt, Fabio M. Giommi, Juliana Jordanova, Peter Malinowski, Stephen Whitmarsh	ECONA - Interuniversity Center for Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy)	2015/11 - 2019/02

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