Title	Researchers	Institution	Duration
Neurobiological effects of Lourdes water: An fMRI study	Anne Schienle, Albert Wabnegger	Clinical Psychology, University of Graz (Austria)	2019/01 - 2021/09
Varieties of voice-hearing and Auditive Paranormal Experiences (APE): Examining "White Christmas" task and hallucinatory experiences in voice-hearers and non-voice-hearers with and without DPD	Alejandro Parra, Juan Carlos Argibay, Jorge Fernando Villanueva	Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires (Argentina)	2019/01 – 2021/03
Biological bases of music cognition	Juan Manuel Toro, Paola Crespo-Bojorque, Alexandre Celma-Miralles, Carlota Pagés	Center for Brain and Cogntion, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)	2019/03 – 2021/10
The psychology and parapsychology of spiritual emergency	Lance Storm, Monika Goretzki	School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia)	2019/06 - 2021/09
Perceptual-personality variables associated with anomalous experiences vs paranormal attributions	Rense Lange, James Houran	Integrated Knowledge Systems - IKS, Chatham (USA); ISLA - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)	2019/02 – 2021/04
Mind-matter practical applications	Patrizio Tressoldi, Luciano Pederzoli, Marco Bilucaglia	EvanLab, Firenze (Italy); Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova (Italy)	2019/01 – 2021/02
Decoding the neuron-astrocyte dialogue that supports cognitive processing	João Filipe Oliveira, Luísa Pinto, Diana Nascimento, Sónia Gomes, Inês Caetano, João Viana, João Luís Machado, Daniela Sofia Abreu, Sara Barsanti	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2020/02 - 2024/04
Mental programming: Exploring the role of parallel and serial processing in human cognition	Sebastien Marti, Moti Salti	Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Renouvelables - CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva (Israel)	Canceled
Changes in subjective time and self but not the temporal width of the present moment after meditation	Marc Wittmann, Stefan Schmidt, Karin Meissner	Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany); University Clinic Freiburg (Germany); Coburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)	2019/07 - 2022/09
Can EEG neurofeedback of theta during consolidation enhance episodic memory?	Lisa Evans	Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre - CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University (UK)	2019/10 – 2024/01
Electrophysiological correlates of size-distance integration	Irene Sperandio, Louis Renoult	Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Italy)	2020/11 - 2024/05
Investigating biochemical mechanisms underlying mind-matter interactions: Effect of intention on human stem cell properties via cryptochrome	Yung-Jong Shiah, George T.-J. Huang	Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (China); University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (USA)	2019/03 – 2023/03
Explaining autonomous sensory meridian response	Michael Banissy, Thomas Swart	Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)	2019/01 – 2023/02
Temperamental influences on social cognition under stress	Frederike Beyer, Ulrike Krämer	Psychology Department, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (UK); Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck (Germany)	2019/02 – 2021/09
The neurophenomenology of volition: Revisiting the Libet task with first-person methods	Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian Kübel, Marc Wittmann, Han-Gue Jo	Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2019/12 - 2024/07
Neuropsychological and cognitive-perceptual characteristics of mediums and psychics	Ken Drinkwater	Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)	2019/09 – 2023/07
Role of NT3/TrkC in the regulation of fear	Mónica Santos	Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2019/03 – 2023/07
National survey of "Cases of Reincarnation Type" in Brazil	Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Jim Tucker, Lucam Moraes, Sandra Carvalho	Research Center in Spirituality and Health - NUPES, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF (Brazil); Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)	2020/01 – 2024/11
Attending mindfully: A psychophysiology study of sensory processing in meditators	Veena Kumari, Rakesh Pandey	Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge (UK); Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India)	2019/04 – 2024/07
Meditation-induced neuroplasticity of the embodied-self and its role in social processing	Aviva Berkovich-Ohana	The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa (Israel); Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)	2019/02 – 2021/09
Hypnosis and cognition: Neural basis of hypnotic suggestion on executive functions and perceptual awareness	Rinaldo Livio Perri, Francesco Di Russo, Enrico Facco	Faculty of Psychology, University Niccolò Cusano, Rome (Italy); Cognitive Neuroscience of Action lab, University Foro Italico, Rome (Italy)	2019/03 – 2021/01
Effect of mindfulness on EEG brain activity for cognitive and psychological well-being in the elderly	Samantha Galluzzi, Davide Moretti, Mariangela Lanfredi, Laura Pedrini, Roberta Rossi	IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (Italy)	2019/02 – 2024/02
How does consciousness work in real life?	Adrià Tauste Campo, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga	Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)	2019/02 – 2022/11
A randomized trial: Extraordinary experiences and performance on psi tasks related to meditation	Jennifer Penberthy, Marieta Pehlivanova, Elizabeth Hanchak, Leslie Hubbard	Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)	2020/05 – 2024/01
Does rhythm enhance recognition memory? Evidence from behaviour and electroencephalogy	Emma Ward, Alexander Jones, Jon Silas, Wayne Anderson	The Behavioural, Affective, and Cognitive Neuroscience research group - BACneuro, Psychology Department, Middlesex University, London (UK)	2019/09 - 2023/02
Psi in everyday social interaction	Robin Wooffitt	Anomalous Experiences Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of York (UK)	2019/03 – 2021/04
The neuronal basis of biases	Rubén Moreno-Bote, Roozbeh Kiani	Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technologies of Information and Communications, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); Center for Neural Science, New York University (USA)	2019/01 – 2021/04
Effects of subconscious, nonlocal, and retroactive information on participants’ choice/decision and neural activities	Liang Shan	School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China)	2019/02 – 2025/02
Distinct psychophysiological profiles associated with experiencing the pain of others	Jamie Ward, Mengze Li	School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)	2019/03 – 2024/03
Can the conscious observer affect the collapse of the wavefunction?	Yaïr Pinto, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers	Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)	2019/01 – 2025/02 Inconclusive project
The physiological role of circadian rhythms in memory	Luísa Lopes, Miguel Remondes, Ana Morgado, Joana Coelho	Instituto de Medicina Molecular - João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa (Portugal)	2019/01 – 2023/01
The neural signatures of leadership: Two-brain directed synchronization during eye contact	Caroline Di Bernardi Luft, Isabelle Mareschal	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (UK)	2019/07 – 2023/09
The motor roots of acting together: A psychophysiological investigation	Marta Bortoletto, Corrado Sinigaglia	IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (Italy); Centre for the Study of Social Action, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)	2019/03 – 2024/02
Neurophysiological correlates of shared attention	Andrew Bayliss, Louise Ewing, Lisa Stephenson	School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)	2019/10 – 2023/09
Voice perception in the visually deprived brain: Behavioral and electrophysiological insights	Tatiana Conde e Magro, Ana Pinheiro, César Lima, João Pereira Sarzedas	Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal); Centro de Investigação e de Intervenção Social, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)	2020/02 - 2023/07
A neuroscience approach to investigating how hierarchy influences moral behaviour	Axel Cleeremans, Emilie Caspar	Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); Department of behavioural sciences, Royal Military Academy, Brussels (Belgium)	2019/10 – 2025/03
Examining observer effects on random processes: A correlation matrix	Ana Flores	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2019/07 - 2024/02
Exploring the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation during sleep on fear extinction learning	Carmelo Vicario, Michael A Nitsche, Vuk Markovic	Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund (Germany); Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina (Italy)	2019/04 – 2025/10
Effects of a short-term mindfulness intervention on hypnotisability and mental health	Zoltan Dienes, Peter Lush	School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)	2019/04 – 2020/04
Temporal decoding of selective recollection with psychophysiology	Alexa Morcom, Arjen Alink	School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)	2019/06 – 2022/01
Exploring the effects of linguistic versus non-linguistic mentation in a remote viewing protocol, with coincident micropsychokinesis detection using a novel matrix REG	Paul Stevens, Ben Roberts	University of Derby (UK)	2019/05 – 2025/02
Coping with Pain through Hypnosis, mindfulness and Spirituality (COPAHS)	Maria Alexandra Ferreira Valente, José Luís Pais Ribeiro, Mark Philip Jensen, Ana Filipa Pimenta, Rui Miguel Costa, Melissa Day	William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisboa (Portugal); Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)	2019/10 – 2023/01
Ganzfeld ESP research: Building on lessons learned	Caroline Watt	Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh (UK)	2019/10 – 2024/07
The essential role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in motor imagery: A TMS interference study	Scott Glover	Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London (UK)	2019/03 - 2022/10
Sense of agency in the Ouija board experience	Gethin Hughes, Peter Gooding	Department of Psychology, University of Essex (UK)	2019/04 – 2025/02
Boosting WM capacity by strengthening the oscillatory functional fronto-parietal pathway	Vincenzo Romei	Centre for studies and research in Cognitive Neuroscience - CsrNC, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)	2019/03 – 2023/04
Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain	Morris Freedman, Robert Chen, Malcolm Binns	Division of Neurology, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto (Canada); Division of Neurology, University Health Network - UHN, Toronto (Canada)	2019/07 - 2023/11
Correlating accurate intuition with learning styles and sensory modality preferences	Julie Beischel, Lisa Conboy	Windbridge Research Center, Tucson, Arizona (USA); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)	2019/01 – 2021/10
Mind-shaped body: A new conceptual framework beyond the placebo effect connecting expectations to disease outcome	Francesco Pagnini, Paolo Banfi, Cesare Cavalera, Eleonora Volpato	Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy); Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan (Italy)	2019/02 – 2022/03
The Effects of DLPFC Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on States of Consciousness and Psyckokinesis Performance	Etzel Cardeña, Rainer Goebel	Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology, Lund University (Sweden); Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)	Canceled
Blurring the line between human and robot? Mapping and manipulating the socialness gradient in the brain	Ruud Hortensius, Emily Cross	Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - cSCAN, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow (UK)	2019/05 – 2021/09
Unraveling the mechanisms behind automatic and emotional control: Psychophysiological, cortical excitability and functional connectivity measures	Ignacio Obeso, Jose Ángel Pineda Pardo, Claudia Ammann, Lina Guida, Úrsula Alcañas, David Mata Marín	Centro Integral en Neurociencias A.C. - CINAC, Fundación Investigación HM Hospitales, Madrid (Spain)	2019/02 – 2023/03
Spiritual states induced by ayahuasca, and the involvement of the reward system	Miguel Castelo-Branco, Gisela Lima, Miguel Raimundo, Pedro Fonseca, Carla Cavaleiro, Lorena Petrella, Célia Cabral, Antero Abrunhosa	Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health - ICNAS, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2019/10 - 2022/09
Phenomenological experience and neurophysiological correlates of shamanic trance in healthy individuals	Olivia Gosseries	GIGA research center, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège (Belgium)	2019/07 - 2021/11
Electrophysiological and genetic factors associated with hypnosis, suggestibility and hypnotic phenomenology	William McGeown, Irving Kirsch, Giuliana Mazzoni, Rothwelle Tate, Annalena Venneri	School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK)	2019/06 - 2024/09
Embodied morality: Autonomic signatures of spontaneous deception in mindfulness trained practitioners	Giorgia Ponsi, Maria Serena Panasiti, Cristiano Crescentini, Salvatore Maria Aglioti	Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)	2019/10 - 2024/07
A replication project to acquire pragmatically useful information from the future	Stephan Schwartz, Randall DeMattei, Debra Katz	Atlantic University, Virginia Beach (USA)	2019/01 – 2025/04
Testing a neurobiological model of inner speech processing	Bo Yao	Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester (UK)	2019/09 – 2022/01
More thankful, less stressed? Gratitude and physiological reactions to stress	Brenda O'Connell, Stephen Gallagher, Brian Leavy	Centre for Mental Health & Community Research, Department of Psychology, Maynooth University (Ireland); Study of Stress, Anxiety and Health Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick (Ireland)	2019/09 - 2023/10
The middle-age brain	Marinella Cappelletti, Maria Herrojo Ruiz	Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)	2019/03 – 2024/02
The power of mind: Altering cutaneous sensations by autosuggestion	Elena Azañón, Esther Kuehn	Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany)	2019/11 – 2023/11
The neural circuitry underlying error monitoring during social cognition	Teresa Sousa, Miguel Castelo-Branco, João Castelhano, Verónica Figueiredo, Andreia Pereira	Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health - ICNAS, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2019/10 - 2022/09
Neuroimaging of lucid dreaming	Martin Dresler, Florian Krause	Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)	2019/09 - 2025/03
Mapping the neurophenomenology of the wake-sleep transition	Tristan Bekinschtein, Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar, Jon Simons, Valdas Noreika	Consciousness and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge (UK)	2019/05 – 2024/01 Inconclusive project
Changing human time perception in virtual reality emotional priming: A transcranial direct current stimulation study	André Silva, Ana Costa, Luke Jones, Ana Gomes	Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, University of Coimbra (Portugal); Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester (UK)	2019/04 – 2024/08
The role of interneurons in spatial memory	Tiago G. Oliveira, Patrícia Monteiro, Vítor Pinto, André Miranda, Ricardo Silvestre, Luísa Marinha	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2019/10 - 2023/03
Frontostriatal neurophysiological underpins of decision-making	Hugo Leite-Almeida, Madalena Esteves, Marco Rafael Guimarães, Ana Margarida Cunha, Joana Mendes, Armando Almeida	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2020/02 - 2023/06
Inducing lucid dreams with optimized sensory cues	Benjamin Baird, Giulio Tononi, Stephen LaBerge	Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA)	2019/03 – 2022/10
Research-inspired cognitive empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT)	Giorgia Committeri, Carlo Sestieri, Matteo Frisoni, Agustina Fragueiro, Annalisa Tosoni	Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical sciences, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University G. d' Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)	2019/09 - 2023/04
Analysis of brain activity in adolescents with different levels of emotional regulation	Jordi Solbes Matarredona, María Ángeles Gómez Climent, Samuel Hernández González, Carlos Caurín Alonso, Albert Clemente Soriano, Jose Luis Alba Robles, Rodrigo Zequeira Cotes	Faculty of Education, University of Valencia (Spain); Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain); Faculty of Psychology and Education, International University of Rioja, Logroño (Spain)	2019/02 – 2020/07
Encoding of the kinematics of observed actions in the responses of mirror neurons	Antonino Casile	Center for Translational Neurophysiology - CTNSC, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)	2019/04 – 2023/01
Driving synaptic plasticity in motor-to-visual neural pathways to enhance action prediction	Alessio Avenanti, Marco Zanon	Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy)	2019/10 - 2023/06
The implicit cognition of interpersonal attraction	Joana Arantes, John Wearden, Mavilde Arantes, Emanuel Albuquerque	Psychology Research Center - CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2019/06 – 2024/02
Neural mechanisms underlying unconscious working memory	Albert Compte, João Barbosa, Josep Valls-Sole	Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer - IDIBAPS, Barcelona (Spain)	2019/05 – 2021/09
A comparison of NN-DMT, Changa & 5-MeO-DMT and the Near-death Experience: Qualitative analyses and reviews of the neuroscience	Pascal Michael, David Luke	Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, Greenwich University, London (UK); Psychedelic Research Group, Imperial College London (UK)	2020/01 – 2024/05
Dissecting dynamical components of complex decision-making using a computer game-based task	Gautam Agarwal, Zachary Mainen, Alfonso Renart, Mattia Bergomi	Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa (Portugal)	2019/01 – 2025/01
When style matters: Do oculomotor fingerprint and brain dynamics explain visual exploration and memory strategies?	Maurizio Corbetta, Andrea Zangrossi	Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine - VIMM, Fondazione per la Ricerca Biomedica Avanzata, Padova (Italy); Padova Neuroscience Center – PNC, Università di Padova (Italy)	2019/04 – 2023/11
Transpersonal imagery and bereavement: The psychomanteum and virtual reality	Marilyn Schlitz, Dorote Lucci, Donna Dulo, Kelly Yi, Lincoln Nguyen	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Foundation, Palo Alto, California (USA); Sofia University, Palo Alto, California (USA)	2021/05 - 2024/09

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