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New developments in presentiment research or the nature of time

dc.contributor.authorBierman, Dick J.por
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-21T12:38:56Zpor
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-06T14:49:29Z
dc.date.available2011-01-21T12:38:56Zpor
dc.date.available2011-10-06T14:49:29Z
dc.date.issued2002por
dc.description.abstractHuman physiology changes in predictable ways in anticipation of and after exposure to emotional visual stimuli. In a series of experiments reported by Radin (1997), it was found that even when stimuli were adequately randomized, so that the upcoming stimuli could not be inferred, that anticipatory responses (as measured by changes in skin conductance) before exposure to emotional pictures were significantly larger than before exposure to calm pictures. In three subsequent expreriments, the first and third close replications and the second a conceptual replication of Radin s studies, Bierman confirmed this so called "presentiment" or pre-feeling effect. Bierman sub-sequently decided to see whether these anomalies observed in physiological baseline measurements could also be found in data from studies published previously in the main stream literature. Two datasets were found and reanalyzed. The first dataset as from a study on the speed with which fear arises in animal phobic participants vs. controls by the German group of Hamm. The second study was concerned with the difference in anticipatory responses prior to choosing cards from risky vs. non-risky decks of cards in a gambling task by the US group of Damasio. The combined result showed a significant anomalous difference similar to the effects found in the original studies by Radin and Bierman. A new development in presentiment research is the measurement of brain images rather than skin conductance preceding the presentation of randomized neutral and emotional stimuli. Preliminary results suggest that the anomaly can be located in the brain. This would allow for more detailed inspection of differences between different types of emotional stimuli like violent and erotic.por
dc.identifier.citationCons-Ciências. Porto: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. CTEC. ISSN 1645-6564. 1 (2002) 89-124.por
dc.identifier.issn1645-6564por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10284/1899por
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.publisherEdições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. CTECpor
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCons-Ciênciaspor
dc.relation.ispartofseries1 (2002)por
dc.subjectSkin conductance baselinespor
dc.subjectEmotionpor
dc.subjectPresentimentpor
dc.subjectIntuitionpor
dc.subjectfMRIpor
dc.subjectTimepor
dc.titleNew developments in presentiment research or the nature of timepor
dc.typelecture
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typelecturepor

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