Reference code: | PT/FB/E/088 |
Title: | The slide-show presentiment effect discovered in brain electrical activity
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Publication year: | 2007
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Número de inventário:
| M-0091
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URL: | http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/page/jspr-abstracts-2007#jan
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
The presentation of pictures evokes clearly detectable responses in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Here, the question is addressed whether people show an anomalous pre-stimulus response prior to a sudden appearance of pictures. Therefore, twenty participants were exposed at randomised times to affective and non-affective pictures, and to checkerboard stimuli. In a non-parametric statistical analysis the one-second pre-stimulus epochs were compared with arbitrarily chosen non-exposed pre-stimulus epochs. In a second step, the contrasts between the pre-stimulus responses of different conditions were tested for significance. Checkerboard stimulation revealed no effect, whereas the picture stimuli resulted in a significant increase of the EEG activity. For affective pictures as well as for the difference between affective and neutral pictures, significant z-scores greater than z = 2.0 were found. A control condition with a covered monitor did not show such an effect. The delta band power was only decreased before presentation of pictures. The results support the possible existence of an abnormal presentiment effect. As it is not visible in the averaged EEG curves, this effect may not be time-locked to the stimulus and may be different for each participant. The non-significant results for neutral pictures and checkerboard stimuli suggest that emotional affectivity is important for a pre-stimulus effect in the EEG.
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Accessibility: | Document does not exist in archive
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Hinterberger, T.
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Secondary author(s):
| Studer, P., Jager, M., Haverty-Stacke, C., Walach, H.
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Document type:
| Article
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Reference:
| Hinterberger, T., Studer, P., Jager, M., Haverty-Stacke, C., & Walach, H. (2007). The slide-show presentiment effect discovered in brain electrical activity. Journal of the Society of Psychical Research, 71, 148-166.
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Indexed document: | No
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Keywords: | Brain electrical activity / Presentiment / Electroencephalogram (EEG) / Prestimulus response
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