Title	Researchers	Institution	Duration
The power of imagination: Neural effects of imagined placebo intake	Anne Schienle	Clinical Psychology, University of Graz (Austria)	2023/03 - 2025/04
Generating psi with enchanted spaces: A confirmatory study	James Houran	Integrated Knowledge Systems - IKS, Chatham (USA)	2023/02 - 2024/03
Psychological flexibility and cardiovascular stress-response adaptation to recurrent and changing stress demands: A psychosomatic pathway to good health	Siobhan Howard, Stephen Gallagher	Department of Psychology, University of Limerick (Ireland)	2024/02 - 2027/02
The relationship between temporal lobe lability and anomalous cognition	Lance Storm, Scott Coussens, Jacob Sevastidis	School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia); Cognitive Neurosciences Laboratory, University of South Australia (Australia)	2024/04 - 2025/09
RE-thinking the role of the spatial memory system in cognitive MAPs (acronym: REMAP)	Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli	Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy); Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)	2023/10 - 2026/10
From psychiatric disorder to spiritual gift: Phenomenology and cerebral correlates of hearing voices	Giulia Prete	Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)	2023/06 - 2026/05
Investigating biochemical mechanisms underlying mind-matter interactions: Effect of intention on human cervical cancer cells properties via cryptochrome	Yung-Jong Shiah, Chang-Tze Ricky Yu, Dean Radin	Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan (China); Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan (China)	2023/05 - 2025/09
EEG and behavioral correlates of forward and backward priming	Marc Wittmann, Jürgen Kornmeier, Mareike Wilson, Azadeh Mozhdefarahbakhsh	Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany)	2023/04 - 2026/04
The influence of emotions on actions: Boosting brain network plasticity to ameliorate action control	Sara Borgomaneri, Vincenzo Romei	Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)	2023/05 - 2025/05
Investigating the relationship between differences in sensory processing and paranormal experiences	Roger Newport, Danielle Ropar	School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University (UK); School of Psychology, University of Nottingham (UK)	2023/10 - 2026/09
The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) tool as a marker of subjective visibility	Adélaïde de Heering, Axel Cleeremans	Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)	2023/11 - 2025/02
Enhanced well-being and psychological adjustment: The psychological benefits of paranormal endorsement	Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater	Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)	2023/06 - 2025/03
How reward shapes volition: Neural correlates of motivated intentional actions	Laura Zapparoli, Francantonio Devoto	Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)	2023/07 - 2026/05
Unintended returns of awareness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation	Charlotte Martial, Pauline Fritz, Alice Clerget	Coma Science Group, University of Liège (Belgium)	2023/02 - 2025/12
Can a silent mind know thyself? The role of inner speech in self-awareness	Bo Yao	Department of Psychology, Lancaster University (UK)	2023/03 - 2025/09
Psychometric validation of a questionnaire for assessing paranormal health beliefs and statistically modelling the effects of the construct on health outcomes longitudinally	Andrew Denovan	Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University (UK)	2023/06 - 2025/07
An investigation into the nature of children's extra sensory experiences across various cultural contexts	Donna Thomas, Chris Roe, Callum Cooper, Kirsty Allan, Kate Adams	School of Social Work, Care and Community, University of Central Lancashire (UK); Centre for Psychology and Sociological Sciences, University of Northampton (UK)	2023/03 - 2025/02
COMP-S: Cultivating Compassionate Schools: The effects of an evidence-based compassionate mind training program for teachers on psychophysiological and epigenetic correlates of wellbeing, prosociality and stress	Marcela Matos, José Pinto-Gouveia, Marina Cunha, Margarida Pedroso de Lima, Ana Galhardo, Sérgio Carvalho, Inês Trindade, Isabel Albuquerque, Lara Palmeira, Helena Sá, Ana Raquel Santiago, Frederico Regateiro, Paulo Rodrigues dos Santos	Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention - CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal); Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)	2023/02 - 2026/01
Static and dynamic cognitive control abilities and their relationship to hypnotic suggestibility	Benjamin Parris	Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University (UK)	2023/07 - 2025/12
An integrative biopsychological model to explain associations between trauma history, paranormal experience and belief	Alexander Sumich, Nadja Heym, Stephanie McArdle	NTU - Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University (UK)	2023/07 - 2025/10
Shyness and unsociability: Subtypes of social withdrawal or two faces of the same risk?	António Santos, Kenneth Rubin, Manuela Verissimo, Maryse Guedes, Carla Fernandes, Marilia Fernandes	William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon (Portugal)	2023/09 - 2026/08
Neural correlates of open-label placebo effects in emotional distress	Michael Schaefer	Medical School Berlin (Germany)	2023/09 – 2026/08
I am where I believe my body is	Giorgia Tosi	Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)	2023/05 - 2025/05
Identifying altered resting state connectivity dynamics as predictors of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH)	Sonja Kotz, Hanna Honcamp, Michael Schwartze, David Linden, Federico de Martino, Ana Pinheiro	Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)	2023/09 - 2026/08
Gaze-centered decision making	Rubén Moreno Bote, Benjamin Hayden, Demetrio Ferro	Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); Neuroscience Department, University of Minnesota (USA)	2023/02 - 2025/02
Efficacy of targeted memory reactivation in modulating attentional bias	Aurora D'Atri, Giulia Amicucci	Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila (Italy)	2023/11 - 2026/02
In search of experienced time: How does the heart-brain coupling support the perception of time?	Manos Tsakiris, Irena Arslanova	Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London (UK)	2023/10 - 2024/09
The empathic heart: An interoceptive predictive processing framework of empathy	Carlos Campos, Simone Schütz-Bosbach, Rita Pasion, Tiago Paiva, Nuno Rocha, Carina Fernandes, Mariana Pereira, Fernando Barbosa, Fernando Ferreira-Santos	COFAC, Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, Lisbon (Portugal); Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab, Lusófona University, Lisbon (Portugal); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany); School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (Portugal)	2023/10 – 2026/09
Mapping the characteristics and impacts of terminal lucidity in children	Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Karalee Kothe, Marjorie Woollacott, Michael Nahm, Sara Gunnoe, Philip Roehrs, Allan Kellehear	School of Psychology, Massey University (New Zealand)	2023/10 - 2025/10
Mapping the psychophysiology of commitment	John Michael, Martina Fanghella, Stephen Butterfill, Corrado Sinigaglia	Cognition in Action Lab, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)	2023/03 - 2026/02
Neurocognitive basis of misinformation sharing across the political spectrum	Clara Pretus, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Mireia Torralba	Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona (Spain); Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)	2023/10 - 2026/09
Transformative power of monastic debate and analytical meditation on cognition, emotion and brain	Marieke van Vugt, Narayanan Srinivasan	Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen (The Netherlands); Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India)	2023/04 - 2026/04
Pavlovian conditioning of perceptual neural responses	Andrea Caria, Christoph Braun	Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento (Italy); University of Tübingen (Germany)	2023/10 - 2025/10
The eternal movement of a still mind: Exploring the properties of dynamic brain networks in meditation practices	Roberto Guidotti	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)	2023/11 - 2025/11
Environmental awareness of personally meaningful information: Capturing unconscious physiological responses to subtle signals	Chris Roe	Centre for Psychology and Sociological Sciences, Faculty of Health, Education & Society, University of Northampton (UK)	Canceled
After-death communication with cell phones	Imants Baruss	Department of Psychology, King's University College at Western University, London (Canada)	2023/05 - 2025/04
Blinded by our thoughts? Testing the universality of perceptual decoupling	Sophie Forster	School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)	2023/10 - 2024/09
Investigating physician barriers to acceptance of near-death experiences	Marieta Pehlivanova, Bruce Greyson	Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)	2024/10 - 2025/12
Manipulating consciousness: The role of arousal and attention on conscious perception	Pietro Avanzini, Maria Del Vecchio, Enrico Salemi, Annalisa Cassisi, Alice Giorgi	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR, Institute of Neuroscience, Parma (Italy)	2023/03 - 2025/09
Probing body and soul stress-related reactivity through Ingestible capsules	Giuseppina Porciello, Vanessa Era, Maria Serena Panasiti	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)	2023/07 - 2025/10
Exploring aphantasia and exceptional experiences	Christine Simmonds-Moore, John Kruth	Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology, University of West Georgia, Carrollton (USA); Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)	2023/08 - 2024/07
How does affective touch cause analgesia? Unraveling spinal and supraspinal factors	Alberto Gonzalez-Villar, Adriana Sampaio, Joana Coutinho, Ana Rita Pereira, Márcia da Silva, Ana Ribeiro-Carreira	Psychology Research Center - CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)	2023/10 – 2026/09
Psychophysical interactions in an optical diffraction system	Dean Radin	Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)	2023/03 - 2025/03
Gut brain telepathy: A pilot study with food cues	Garret Yount	Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)	2023/06 - 2025/05
Accuracy and neural correlates of blinded mediumship: A large-scale replication	Arnaud Delorme	Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)	2024/10 - 2026/04
The moon as dream weaver. Exploring the spiritual interplay between Indigenous Mäori lunar phases, sleep, and dreaming	Rangi Matamua, Rosie Gibson, Natasha Tassell-Matamua	School of Māori Knowledge & School of Psychology, Massey University (New Zealand)	Canceled
Trait x state predictors of performance in Ganzfeld: An international multisite study	David Marcusson-Clavertz, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Etzel Cardeña, Chris Roe, Marc Wittmann, Mortiz C. Dechamps, Helané Wahbeh	Department of Psychology, Linnaeus University, Växjö (Sweden); University of Northampton (UK); University of West Georgia, Carrollton (USA)	2023/10 - 2026/06
Sensitive bio-behavioral connections: The role of sensory processing sensitivity and mindfulness in parenting	Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Francesca Lionetti, Michael Pluess	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy); Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London (UK)	2023/11 - 2026/10
RegularMente - Randomized controlled trial of the effects of a guided imagery based Intervention on the well-being, socioemotional and cognitive development, physiologic activity, and academic success of children in school	Iolanda Galinha, Joana Carvalho, Margarida Matos, Augusta Gaspar, António Palmeira, Gina Lemos, Joaquim Melro, Hélder Fernandes, Cátia Reis, Vitória Cardoso, Patrícia Arriaga, Hugo Plácido da Silva, Diego Pinal, Susana Martins	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon (Portugal); Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon (Portugal); Lisbon School of Medicine (Portugal)	2023/07 - 2026/05
Understanding how humans perceive high-frequency vibrations	Nélson Costa, Isabel Lisboa, Emanuel Silva, Paulo Cardoso	Centro ALGORITMI, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães (Portugal)	2023/03 - 2026/02
Assessing cardiac activity as a predictor of freezing behaviour in humans	Jaime Grácio, Natalia Barrios, Marta Moita, Diego Carrasco, Carolina Ferreira, Pedro Ferreira, Joaquim Alves da Silva, Albino Oliveira-Maia	Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon (Portugal)	2023/03 - 2027/02
SPARKS: Driving associative plasticity in the cortically blind brain to promote recovery of visual awareness	Simone Battaglia, Matteo Diano, Marco Tamietto	Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy)	2023/10 - 2026/09
From the body to visual awareness: Interoceptive influences on the processing of consciously and non-consciously perceived emotional visual stimuli	Ruben Azevedo, Marco Tamietto	School of Psychology, University of Kent (UK); Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy)	2023/09 - 2026/01
Autonomic signatures of mind wandering and its consequences on attention and positive emotions in individuals with different levels of expertise in mindfulness meditation	Cristiano Crescentini, Susanna Feruglio, Alessio Matiz	Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine (Italy)	2023/09 - 2026/09
Implicit generalization of experience in the human brain: Keep Information for Navigation and Memory IN a Distance map (Keep IN MIND)	Giorgia Committeri, Federica Santacroce, Agustina Fragueiro	Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)	2023/11 - 2026/09
Uncovering the dynamics of hyperarousal and restless sleep	Lara Rösler, Roy Cox, Eus Van Someren	Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)	2023/10 – 2025/04
TrustyCobots: Human-like or machine-like? Tracking psychophysiological components of trust in human-robot collaboration	Artur Pilacinski, Sergi Bermudez I Badia, Ioannis Iossifidis, Ana Luisa Pinto, Paula Alexandra Silva, Christian Klaes	Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention - CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal); University of Madeira (Portugal); Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (Germany)	2023/03 - 2025/08
Existential neuroscience investigations with long-term meditation practitioners	Elisa Puvia, Antonino Raffone, Luca Simione	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy); Italian National Research Council - CNR (Italy)	2024/10 - 2026/10
Predicting the future to make sense of the present: Predictive brain mechanisms for speech perception	Ediz Sohoglu	School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)	2023/09 - 2024/08
System for measuring and manipulating language-based social interactions using EEG hyperscanning, neurofeedback and closed-loop brain stimulation	Alejandro Perez, Ander Ramos-Murguialday, Carmen Vidaurre	Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, MacMaster University (Canada)	2023/11 - 2025/10
Event segmentation and time perception: Understanding why time feels like flying	Lucia Melloni, Darinka Trübutschek	Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)	2023/03 - 2025/12
Modulating the brain rhythm of religious and political conflicts: theta-transcranial alternating current stimulation (theta-tACS) studies	Gabriele Fusco, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Valentina Nicolardi, Azzurra Cristiano	Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)	2023/10 - 2025/09
Anger in the mind and body: From unconscious cognitive mechanisms to psychophysiological and neural substrates	Liliana Capitão, Catherine Harmer, Stefan Van Duijvenboden, Marlene Nogueira, Anna Pelliet, Marieke Martens, Adriana Sampaio, Joana Coutinho, Susana Capela, Catarina Fagundes, Fátima Saraiva	Psychology Research Center - CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal); Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory, University of Oxford (UK)	2023/04 - 2027/04
Slow wave sleep reduces emotion: A multilevel approach combining the monitoring of brain, neurovegetative and dream activities	Pascal Hot, Jean Baptiste Eichenlaub, Sophie Schwartz, Jessica Bourgin, Sonia Pellissier, Sylvain Delplanque	Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France); Sleep and Cognition Neuroimaging Laboratory, Geneva University NeuroCenter (Switzerland)	2023/06 - 2025/01
Extended recalled death experiences: "Becoming alive after you are cold and long dead"	Adrian Parker, Annekatrin Puhle	Scandinavian International University, Örebro (Sweden); Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)	2023/09 – 2025/08
Psi at home 2 - An experimental paradigm for replicating psi research with selected cohorts	Peter Bancel, Mario Varvoglis, Jocelyne Boban	Institut Métapsychique International, Paris (France)	Canceled
Training in the oneiric life: A psychophysiological and humanistic study of Tibetan Buddhist lucid dreaming practices	Michael Sheehy, David Germano, Katarina Turpeinen, Ken Paller, Susan Florczak	Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA); Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University (USA)	2024/05 – 2026/03
Feeling good and feeling in control: A longitudinal study of mood and sense of agency	Alexandre Hyafil, María da Fonseca	Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra (Spain)	2023/06 - 2026/05
Boosting and hindering action imitation by modulating spike-timing dependent plasticity	Alessio Avenanti, Chiara Spaccasassi, Sonia Turrini, Antonio Cataneo	Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy)	2023/10 - 2025/10
Altered states of viscereality: Augmenting breathwork with bio-responsive virtual reality	Oliver Deussen, Bigna Lenggenhager, George Fejer, Isabella Pasqualini	Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz (Germany)	2023/10 - 2026/04
Switching on and off the insula by means of non-invasive brain stimulation changes the spiritual self	Francesca Strappini, Francesco Di Russo, Sabrina Pitzalis	Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of “Foro Italico” (Italy)	2024/01 - 2026/01
Expanding the study of presentiment using multimodal biosignals, a large sample, and immersive virtual reality	Cedric Cannard	Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA)	2023/03 - 2026/03
Decoding of LSD-induced perceptual changes in visual and auditory modalities	Sidarta Ribeiro, Luiza Mugnol-Ugarte, Dráulio Araújo, Daniel Brandão, Stanislas Dehaene, Ghislaine Lambertz, Lucie Berkovitch, Fosca Al Loumi, Dayane Lima, Marina Reis, Fernanda Fontes, Sérgio Arthuro Rolim	Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology - 2Bio, Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil); Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFJF (Brazil)	2023/05 - 2025/05
Psychophysiology of the blind mind: Shedding light on memories without imagery	Elena Azañón, Max-Philipp Stenner	Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany)	2024/01 - 2026/12
Mapping experiences of invisible others: Talent and training in a virtual reality psychomanteum	Marilyn Schlitz, James Thompson, Jennifer Crane, Lincoln Nguyen	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Sofia University, California (USA)	2024/10 - 2027/10

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