Title	Researchers	Institution	Duration
Environmental sensitivity, personality and perceptual experiences associated with non-conventional healing practices	Alejandro Parra, Juan Carlos Argibay, Patricia Arca Mena	Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Canceled
World-relative object motion: How the brain detects object motion while we are moving	Valentina Sulpizio	IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome (Italy)	2021/10 – 2024/01
Anticipation and experience of stressful situations and their psychobiological impact on providing pre-hospital emergency medicine care	Mark Wetherell, Jeff Doran	Department of Psychology, Northumbria University Newcastle (UK); Great North Air Ambulance Service (UK)	2021/09 - 2024/10
Exploring the role of "Enchantment" in psi phenomena	Rense Lange, James Houran	Integrated Knowledge Systsems - IKS, Chatham (USA); ISLA - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)	2021/06 – 2022/09
What mechanisms and computations does the brain use to solve complex decision problems?	Nicholas Furl	Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham (UK)	2021/07 – 2023/06
The role of non-verbal behaviour on placebo and nocebo effects. Psychophysiological experiments	Magne Arve Flaten, Hojjat Daniali, Per Aslaksen, Ted Kaptchuk, Mollie Ruben	Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway); University of Tromsø (Norway); Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)	2021/02 – 2024/11
Luminous dancing fairies in weightlessness: How gravity shapes conscious experiences	Elisa Ferrè	Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)	2021/12 – 2024/12
Fear in action: How Pavlovian fear learning shapes goal-directed motor responses	Francesca Starita, Giuseppe di Pellegrino	Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience - CsrNC, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)	2021/03 – 2024/03
Investigating the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), anomalous experiences, and precognitive performance	Elizabeth Roxburgh, David Vernon, Malcolm Schofield	Psychology Department, Canterbury Christ Church University (UK); University of Derby (UK)	2021/12 – 2025/06
Cerebrovascular hypothesis of stress-induced behavioral alterations	Ana Paula Silva, Filipa Baptista, Ana Rita Gaspar, Ricardo Leitão, Catarina Gomes	Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology - CIBB, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2021/09 – 2025/07
The social code in cingulate-hippocampal circuits: The role of memory in social contests	Emanuel Fernandes, João Peça, Carolina Kunicki, Joana Guedes, Ana Cardoso	Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2021/02 – 2024/09
Psychophysiology of highly superior autobiographical memory: Shedding light on the mind of people who never forget	Valerio Santangelo, Sabrina Fagioli	Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences & Education, University of Perugia (Italy); Roma Tre University (Italy)	2021/09 – 2025/05
Redefining the boundaries between cognition and action through the psychophysiological investigation of binary decisions	Michele Scaltritti, Simone Sulpizio	Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Italy); Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)	2021/02 – 2023/09
Mindfulness meditation state and trait through the eyes of brain computational modelling	Laura Marzetti	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)	2021/10 – 2025/09
Age-related changes in motor-cognitive dual-tasking: An electrophysiological investigation of interference at the level of sub-task elements	Subhobrata Mitra, Christina Howard	Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University (UK)	2021/10 – 2024/05
Mentation report analysis across distinct states of consciousness: A linguistic approach	Giulio Bernardi, Giulia Avvenuti, Michele Bellesi, Valentina Elce, Emanuela Merelli	IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (Italy); University of Camerino (Italy)	2021/02 – 2024/02
Beyond "mindfulness" and toward a modern science of meditative mastery and spiritual transformation	Matthew Sacchet, Diego Pizzagalli, Remko van Lutterveld, Marta Bianciardi	Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)	2021/03 – 2024/02
Zooming in on the true neural mechanisms of phenomenal consciousness	Simon van Gaal, Andres Canales-Johnson, Robin Ince, Srivas Chennu	Amsterdam, Brain and Cognition - ABC, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Cambridge University (UK)	2021/04 – 2024/02
Attitudes and beliefs as predictors of psi effects in a pseudo-gambling task	Lance Storm	School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia)	2022/01 – 2023/11
A telephone telepathy study: Does genetic relatedness influence psychic abilities?	Helané Wahbeh	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)	2021/03 – 2023/09
Living in a dream: Body and self-experience during waking and dream states in depersonalisation	Jane Aspell, Anna Ciaunica, Bigna Lenggenhager, Jennifer Windt	School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation, Chelmsford (UK)	2021/04 – 2025/02
Can the time needed to process visual information following a saccade be used to predict variations in neural measures of working memory and well-being?	Corinna Haenschel, John Barbur, Emsal Llapashtica	Department of Psychology, City, University of London (UK)	2021/04 – 2024/07
A latent profile analysis and structural equation modelling of paranormal belief, psychopathological symptoms, and well-being	Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan	Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)	2021/02 – 2023/04
Investigating the role of expertise in the predictive coding framework combining time resolved neural and behavioural evidence	Marie Smith, Ines Mares, Louise Ewing, Fraser Smith	Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)	2021/08 – 2024/07
From inner to dyadic connection: The effect of mindfulness intervention on mother-infant bio-behavioural synchrony	Maria Spinelli, Chiara Suttora, Filippo Zappasodi	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy); Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna (Italy)	2021/09 – 2024/05
Copy me, copy you: Investigating the development of facial mimicry	Carina de Klerk, Javier Andreu-Perez	Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester (UK)	2021/12 – 2025/09
Stimulating compassion: Using transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) to probe compassionate behaviour	Sunjeev Kamboj	Department Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London (UK)	2022/02 – 2024/07
The me and the I: Dissociating ownership and agency in sensorimotor processing	Ana Pinheiro, Sonja Kotz, Michael Schwartze	Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal); Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)	2021/09 – 2025/08
Multifunctional mediums? An exploration of the contemporary social psychological function of mediums and mediumship in the UK	Deborah Earnshaw, James Thompson	School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University (UK)	2021/06 – 2022/11
Uncertainty as an elicitor or modulator of emotion and associated psychophysiology	Jayne Morriss	School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading (UK)	2021/10 – 2023/05
A swing between the inner and the outer worlds: Exploring the function of the frontal aslant tract with transcranial magnetic stimulation	Luigi Cattaneo, Sara Parmigiani	Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento (Italy)	2021/09 – 2025/01
Investigation of non-inferential perception using a 3D-computer-assisted dowsing task	Jorge Moll, Julie Weingartner, Maria Stewart, Cristiano Junqueira	D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Scients Institute, Palo Alto (USA)	2021/01 – 2024/12
Mind over matter: Using cognitive reappraisal and neurofeedback to control pain	Brianna Beck	School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK)	2021/09 – 2023/04 Inconclusive project
Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)	Callum Cooper	Research Centre for Psychology & Social Sciences, University of Northampton (UK)	2021/01 – 2024/06
In your skin: The psychophysiology of touch observation	Bettina Forster	Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London (UK)	2021/09 – 2024/06
The role of nucleus accumbens in the perception of natural rewards	Carina Cunha, Ana João Rodrigues, Nivaldo Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bárbara Coimbra, Ana Verónica Domingues, Gabriela Martins	Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal); Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York City (USA)	2021/06 – 2025/01
Sleep and dreaming after a near-death experience. An exploratory study using wrist actigraphy	Nicole Lindsay, Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Rosemary Gibson	School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North (New Zealand)	2021/11 – 2025/09
The adapting brain: Preparing for parenthood	Lluís Fuentemilla, Estela Cámara, Susana Carmona, Chris Baldassano, Francesc Fargas, Josué García	Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona (Spain); University Hospital Quirón Dexeus, Barcelona (Spain); Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain)	2021/10 – 2026/09
Revealing the roots of remote helping - An investigation of macroscopic entanglement correlations and associated psi-facilitating features in attention focusing facilitation experiments	Karolina A. Kirmse, Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach	Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany); University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2021/03 – 2023/04 Inconclusive project
Exploring the use of floatation tanks as a means to induce psi-conducive states of consciousness	Glenn Hitchman, Callum Cooper	Research Centre for Psychology & Social Sciences, University of Northampton (UK)	2021/07 – 2025/09
Understanding the brain mechanisms of death-denial for fostering mindfulness-based existential resilience	Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Yair Dor-Ziderman	The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa (Israel); Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)	2022/01 – 2024/01
The control of attentional diversion: A psychophysiological approach	John Marsh, Federica Degno, Robert Hughes	Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston (UK); Royal Holloway University of London, Egham (UK)	2021/10 - 2024/09
Dynamic eye-movement encoding in human cortex using ultra-high field fMRI (7Tesla)	Alessio Fracasso	Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK)	2021/10 – 2023/09
Comparing cognitive styles among parapsychology researchers, psi-believers, and skeptics	Marieta Pehlivanova, Bruce Greyson	Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)	2021/03 – 2023/12
Does restricting physical freedom broaden mental freedom? The effect of REST-floatation in adolescents	Amir Raz, Uri Maoz, Elnaz Lashgari	Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, Irvine (USA)	2021/11 - 2023/11Inconclusive project
Analysis of an entropic anomaly in 23 years of truly random data	Dean Radin	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)	2022/01 - 2023/02
Sensory entrainment for improving spatial navigation	Mireia Torralba Cuello, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Lluis Fuentemilla, José Ángel Blat	Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); University of Barcelona (Spain)	2021/09 – 2025/04
Decoding sound symbolism in visual cortex	Petra Vetter, Carolyn McGettigan	Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); University College London (UK)	2021/11 – 2025/06
The premotor roots of musical beat perception and imagery: A neurophysiological investigation	Carlotta Lega, Virginia Penhune, Luigi Cattaneo	Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)	2021/09 – 2024/11
The hidden rhythm of interpersonal (sub-)movement coordination	Alice Tomassini, Alessandro D'Ausilio, Julien Laroche	Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication - CTNSC, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara (Italy)	2021/06 – 2023/06
Physiological correlates to variations in ultra-weak photon emissions during periods of focused intent	John Kruth	Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)	2021/05 – 2023/03
Neurophysiological bases of decision-making processes: Dissociating risk and uncertainty in the human brain	Tiago Paiva, Carina Fernandes, Fernando Barbosa, João Marques-Teixeira, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Carlos Seixas, Rita Pasion, Carlos Campos	Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto (Portugal)	2021/06 – 2024/05
In God's shoes: Embodying the avatar of the supreme moral authority modulates psychophysiological indices of one's own morality	Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Michael Schepisi, Althea Frisanco, Gaetano Tieri	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)	2021/06 – 2023/09
Brain routes to creativity: Uncovering creative flow in Jazz with neuromodulation	Henrique Fernandes, Jakub Vohryzek, Ana Coelho, Morten Kringelbach, Peter Vuust	Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University (Denmark); University of Oxford (UK)	2021/01 – 2023/03
Advancements on the aware mind-brain: New insights about the neural correlates of meditation states and traits	Antonino Raffone, Vasil Kolev, Peter Malinowski, Juliana Yordanova, Roumen Kirov	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy); Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria); Liverpool John Moores University (UK)	2021/03 – 2024/09
Beyond your own body: Extending the bodily self to the neuroaesthetics of interactions	Andrea Orlandi, Matteo Candidi, Martina Fanghella, Quentin Moreau	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)	2021/02 – 2023/07
The whole is more than the sum of its parts: Elucidating the link between sleep quality and well-being by integrating cross-modal networks	Tessa Blanken, Denny Borsboom	Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)	2021/09 - 2023/03
Emotional distraction: Contextual modulation of attentional capture	Maurizio Codispoti, Cristina Filannino	Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)	2021/04 – 2023/02
The origin of the sublime power in the brain: An integrated EEG-TMS study	Eleonora Maggioni, Paolo Brambilla, Giandomenico Schiena, Alice Chirico, Andrea Gaggioli, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis	Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan (Italy); Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy); Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)	2021/04 – 2025/05
Closing the loop: Using real-time EEG to mutually enlighten first and third-person perspectives on the self	Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Lukas Hecker, Stefan Schmidt	Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2021/10 – 2025/06
Peace of mind and emotion regulation: Survey-based, behavioural, and neuroscientific investigations	Pilleriin Sikka	Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (Finland)	2021/01 – 2024/05
Assessing static and dynamic effects of mindfulness meditation on peripersonal space	Luca Simione, Salvatore Chiarella	Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council - CNR, Rome (Italy)	2021/11 – 2024/04
How body ownership shapes tactile awareness: Inducing phantom sensations and measuring their electrophysiological correlates in immersive virtual reality	Carlotta Fossataro, Valentina Bruno, Alice Rossi Sebastiano, Francesca Garbarini	Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy)	2021/04 – 2024/01
Non-conscious influences on expected and subjective value in economic decisions	Fredrik Bergström, Jorge Manuel de Albuquerque Almeida, Johan Eriksson, Bruno de Sousa	Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2021/10 - 2025/06
The psychology of the living and the dead: Interpersonal psychology in the afterlife	André Mata	Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)	2021/02 – 2025/12
Mindfulness and psychedelics: A neurophenomenological approach to the characterization of acute and sustained response to DMT in experienced meditators	Milan Scheidegger, Daniel Meling, Michael Kometer, Dario Dornbierer	Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich (Switzerland); University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)	2021/10 – 2024/05
Italian research group on mediumship. Mediumistic abilities testing protocol	Laura Liberale, Patrizio Tresoldi, Ines Testoni, Sara Pompele, Erika Iacona, Gianmarco Biancalani	Nemesi Aps, Padova (Italy)	2021/01 – 2024/05
Evaluation of psychological traits, pain perception and muscular strength in trance experts	Olivia Gosseries, Paul Hollanders, Yannick Lafon	GIGA Research Center, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège (Belgium)	2022/01 – 2023/11
Crossmodal perception in blind individuals: Neural mechanisms and the role of mental imagery	Aline de Borst	Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Hamburg University (Germany); Maastricht University (The Netherlands)	2021/08 – 2025/06 Inconclusive project
Open-label choice blindness: Exploring the mechanism underlying auto-suggestion	Jeremy Olson, Despina Artenie, Ellen Langer, Jian Kong	Department of Psychiatry, Massachusets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA); Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)	2022/05 – 2023/09
Probing the plasticity of the action observation network with virtual reality and brain imaging	Antonino Casile	Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)	Canceled
Psi at home: An adaptable protocol for psi experiments with selected cohorts	Peter Bancel, Mario Varvoglis, Jocelyne Boban, Miriam Gablier	Institut Métapsychique International - IMI, Paris (France)	2021/02 – 2025/02
Finding the light: Neural and pharmacological evidence of pure consciousness	Heleen Slagter, Sander Nieuwenhuis, Henk Barendregt, Ruben Laukkonen	Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Institute of Psychology, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)	2021/10 – 2023/09
Study of end-of-life paranormal phenomena recognized by palliative care health professionals in Portugal	Úrsula Dalcolmo, Manuela Bertão, Francisca Rêgo, Luísa Castro	Departamento de Medicina da Comunidade, Informação e Decisão em Saúde - MEDCIDS, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)	2021/03 – 2025/09
Large scale online testing of psi abilities to identify and test talented individuals	Arnaud Delorme	Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)	2021/04 – 2024/11
Phenomenology and neuropsychology of practice and exceptional experiences in highly trained Kundalini yoga practitioners	Thilo Hinterberger, Madeleine Hipp	University Clinic of Regensburg (Germany)	Canceled
A trait-and-state analysis of precognitive remote viewing focusing on gender, emotions, and pregnancy status	Julia Mossbridge, Mark Boccuzzi, Kirsten Cameron	The Institute for Love and Time - TILT, Sebastopol (USA); Windbridge Institute, LLC, Tucson (USA)	2021/01 – 2022/09
Dynamics of meditation: The influence of intensive shamatha training on posture, perception, endogenous neural activity, and predictive anticipatory activity during meditation	Jonathan Schooler, Bruce Wallace, James Elliott	Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)	2022/02 – 2026/01
Neuroanatomical correlates of wellbeing in a mindfulness and religious exercises program	Paulo Dias, Ângela Leite, Bruno Nobre, Bruce Fischl	Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga (Portugal)	2021/11 – 2025/11
Pathways from prenatal and postnatal stress to sleep quality across childhood: The role of the amygdala and cortisol	Desana Kocevska, Annemarie Luik	Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)	2021/09 – 2024/04
Schema-based temporal memory in parietal cortex (SCHETEMP)	Matteo Frisoni, Paolo Capotosto	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)	2021/10 – 2023/11
EEG activation in monozygotic and dizygotic twins to assess heritability of pre- and post-stimulus response to visual stimuli	William Bunney, Richard Stein, Julie Patterson	Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine (USA)	2022/01 – 2026/04
AECKO: Towards a science of anomalous experience field studies	Bryan Williams, Gerald Solfvin	Psychical Research Foundation, Texas (USA)	2021/10 – 2024/06
Illuminating the dreamer's perceptual experiences	Delphine Oudiette, Ken Paller, Susan Florczak, Karen Konkoly, Saba Al-youssef	Institut du Cerveau, Paris (France); Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University, Evanston (USA)	2022/02 – 2024/07
The plasticity of prayer: How speaking in tongues opens the mind	Michael Lifshitz, Joshua Brahinsky, Samuel Veissière, Daniela Santucci	Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal (Canada)	2023/09 – 2025/07
Mind-to-Mind Experiment: A multi-phase talent selection program and a potential enhancement technique for testing the hypothesis of interconnected minds	Dean Radin	Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)	2024/03 – 2025/09

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