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How the human brain constructs experience — and where it goes wrong. Peer-reviewed research on pareidolia, sleep paralysis, false memory, and witness suggestibility: the cognitive building blocks that underlie many anomalous-experience reports.
ExplorePrimary source texts from the founding era of organised psychical research, now in the public domain. The SPR's landmark surveys, case collections, and theoretical frameworks — essential reading for understanding how the field began and how it defined its methods.
ExplorePhysical environmental factors — infrasound, electromagnetic fields, geomagnetic variation — and their measurable effects on human perception and mood. Research exploring whether the places we investigate shape what we think we experience there.
ExploreOpen-access work examining how paranormal and anomalistic research is designed, analysed, and evaluated. Covers publication bias, questionable research practices, replication, and the challenge of drawing reliable conclusions from anomalous-experience data.
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Joana Leitao, Bert Timmermans
Applying a weak alternating current at 40 Hz to areas of the brain associated with face processing significantly increases the likelihood that participants will perceive illusory faces in non-face images. The finding provides direct causal evidence that gamma-band neural synchrony in the face network is responsible for pareidolia.
Connie X. Wang, Isaac A. Hilburn
Using shielded-room EEG experiments, a Caltech-led team found that rotating the ambient magnetic field around resting participants produced repeatable drops in alpha-band brainwave power. This provides the strongest evidence to date that the human brain passively detects and responds to magnetic field changes, though the authors do not claim conscious awareness of the effect.
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