Grants 2018
Title
Researchers
Institution
Duration
Database
Results
Neurobiological effects of Lourdes water: An fMRI study
Anne Schienle, Albert Wabnegger
Clinical Psychology, University of Graz (Austria)
2019/01 - 2021/09
Varieties of voice-hearing and Auditive Paranormal Experiences (APE): Examining "White Christmas" task and hallucinatory experiences in voice-hearers and non-voice-hearers with and without DPD
Alejandro Parra, Juan Carlos Argibay, Jorge Fernando Villanueva
Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2019/01 – 2021/03
Biological bases of music cognition
Juan Manuel Toro, Paola Crespo-Bojorque, Alexandre Celma-Miralles, Carlota Pagés
Center for Brain and Cogntion, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
2019/03 – 2021/10
The psychology and parapsychology of spiritual emergency
Lance Storm, Monika Goretzki
School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia)
2019/06 - 2021/09
Perceptual-personality variables associated with anomalous experiences vs paranormal attributions
Rense Lange, James Houran
Integrated Knowledge Systems - IKS, Chatham (USA); ISLA - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)
2019/02 – 2021/04
Mind-matter practical applications
Patrizio Tressoldi, Luciano Pederzoli, Marco Bilucaglia
EvanLab, Firenze (Italy); Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova (Italy)
2019/01 – 2021/02
Decoding the neuron-astrocyte dialogue that supports cognitive processing
João Filipe Oliveira, Luísa Pinto, Diana Nascimento, Sónia Gomes, Inês Caetano, João Viana, João Luís Machado, Daniela Sofia Abreu, Sara Barsanti
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2020/02 - 2024/04
Mental programming: Exploring the role of parallel and serial processing in human cognition
Sebastien Marti, Moti Salti
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Renouvelables - CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
Canceled
Changes in subjective time and self but not the temporal width of the present moment after meditation
Marc Wittmann, Stefan Schmidt, Karin Meissner
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany); University Clinic Freiburg (Germany); Coburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
2019/07 - 2022/09
Can EEG neurofeedback of theta during consolidation enhance episodic memory?
Lisa Evans
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre - CUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University (UK)
2019/10 – 2024/01
Electrophysiological correlates of size-distance integration
Irene Sperandio, Louis Renoult
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Italy)
2020/11 - 2024/05
Investigating biochemical mechanisms underlying mind-matter interactions: Effect of intention on human stem cell properties via cryptochrome
Yung-Jong Shiah, George T.-J. Huang
Graduate Institute of Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (China); University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (USA)
2019/03 – 2023/03
Explaining autonomous sensory meridian response
Michael Banissy, Thomas Swart
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2019/01 – 2023/02
Temperamental influences on social cognition under stress
Frederike Beyer, Ulrike Krämer
Psychology Department, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (UK); Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck (Germany)
2019/02 – 2021/09
The neurophenomenology of volition: Revisiting the Libet task with first-person methods
Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian Kübel, Marc Wittmann, Han-Gue Jo
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)
2019/12 - 2024/07
Neuropsychological and cognitive-perceptual characteristics of mediums and psychics
Ken Drinkwater
Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
2019/09 – 2023/07
Role of NT3/TrkC in the regulation of fear
Mónica Santos
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2019/03 – 2023/07
National survey of "Cases of Reincarnation Type" in Brazil
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Jim Tucker, Lucam Moraes, Sandra Carvalho
Research Center in Spirituality and Health - NUPES, School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF (Brazil); Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)
2020/01 – 2024/11
Attending mindfully: A psychophysiology study of sensory processing in meditators
Veena Kumari, Rakesh Pandey
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge (UK); Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India)
2019/04 – 2024/07
Meditation-induced neuroplasticity of the embodied-self and its role in social processing
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa (Israel); Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
2019/02 – 2021/09
Hypnosis and cognition: Neural basis of hypnotic suggestion on executive functions and perceptual awareness
Rinaldo Livio Perri, Francesco Di Russo, Enrico Facco
Faculty of Psychology, University Niccolò Cusano, Rome (Italy); Cognitive Neuroscience of Action lab, University Foro Italico, Rome (Italy)
2019/03 – 2021/01
Effect of mindfulness on EEG brain activity for cognitive and psychological well-being in the elderly
Samantha Galluzzi, Davide Moretti, Mariangela Lanfredi, Laura Pedrini, Roberta Rossi
IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (Italy)
2019/02 – 2024/02
How does consciousness work in real life?
Adrià Tauste Campo, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga
Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
2019/02 – 2022/11
A randomized trial: Extraordinary experiences and performance on psi tasks related to meditation
Jennifer Penberthy, Marieta Pehlivanova, Elizabeth Hanchak, Leslie Hubbard
Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)
2020/05 – 2024/01
Does rhythm enhance recognition memory? Evidence from behaviour and electroencephalogy
Emma Ward, Alexander Jones, Jon Silas, Wayne Anderson
The Behavioural, Affective, and Cognitive Neuroscience research group - BACneuro, Psychology Department, Middlesex University, London (UK)
2019/09 - 2023/02
Psi in everyday social interaction
Robin Wooffitt
Anomalous Experiences Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University of York (UK)
2019/03 – 2021/04
The neuronal basis of biases
Rubén Moreno-Bote, Roozbeh Kiani
Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technologies of Information and Communications, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); Center for Neural Science, New York University (USA)
2019/01 – 2021/04
Effects of subconscious, nonlocal, and retroactive information on participants’ choice/decision and neural activities
Liang Shan
School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China)
2019/02 – 2023/06
Distinct psychophysiological profiles associated with experiencing the pain of others
Jamie Ward, Mengze Li
School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)
2019/03 – 2024/03
Can the conscious observer affect the collapse of the wavefunction?
Yaïr Pinto, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2019/01 – 2024/06
The physiological role of circadian rhythms in memory
Luísa Lopes, Miguel Remondes, Ana Morgado, Joana Coelho
Instituto de Medicina Molecular - João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa (Portugal)
2019/01 – 2023/01
The neural signatures of leadership: Two-brain directed synchronization during eye contact
Caroline Di Bernardi Luft, Isabelle Mareschal
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (UK)
2019/07 – 2023/09
The motor roots of acting together: A psychophysiological investigation
Marta Bortoletto, Corrado Sinigaglia
IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia (Italy); Centre for the Study of Social Action, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
2019/03 – 2024/02
Neurophysiological correlates of shared attention
Andrew Bayliss, Louise Ewing, Lisa Stephenson
School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)
2019/10 – 2023/09
Voice perception in the visually deprived brain: Behavioral and electrophysiological insights
Tatiana Conde e Magro, Ana Pinheiro, César Lima, João Pereira Sarzedas
Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal); Centro de Investigação e de Intervenção Social, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
2020/02 - 2023/07
A neuroscience approach to investigating how hierarchy influences moral behaviour
Axel Cleeremans, Emilie Caspar
Center for Research in Cognition and Neuroscience, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); Department of behavioural sciences, Royal Military Academy, Brussels (Belgium)
2019/10 – 2024/09
Examining observer effects on random processes: A correlation matrix
Ana Flores
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2019/07 - 2024/02
Exploring the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation during sleep on fear extinction learning
Carmelo Vicario, Michael A Nitsche, Vuk Markovic
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund (Germany); Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina (Italy)
2019/04 – 2024/11
Effects of a short-term mindfulness intervention on hypnotisability and mental health
Zoltan Dienes, Peter Lush
School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)
2019/04 – 2020/04
Temporal decoding of selective recollection with psychophysiology
Alexa Morcom, Arjen Alink
School of Psychology, University of Sussex (UK)
2019/06 – 2022/01
Exploring the effects of linguistic versus non-linguistic mentation in a remote viewing protocol, with coincident micropsychokinesis detection using a novel matrix REG
Paul Stevens, Ben Roberts
University of Derby (UK)
2019/05 – 2019/10
Coping with Pain through Hypnosis, mindfulness and Spirituality (COPAHS)
Maria Alexandra Ferreira Valente, José Luís Pais Ribeiro, Mark Philip Jensen, Ana Filipa Pimenta, Rui Miguel Costa, Melissa Day
William James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisboa (Portugal); Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
2019/10 – 2023/01
Ganzfeld ESP research: Building on lessons learned
Caroline Watt
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh (UK)
2019/10 – 2024/07
The essential role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in motor imagery: A TMS interference study
Scott Glover
Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London (UK)
2019/03 - 2022/10
Sense of agency in the Ouija board experience
Gethin Hughes, Peter Gooding
Department of Psychology, University of Essex (UK)
2019/04 – 2023/03
Boosting WM capacity by strengthening the oscillatory functional fronto-parietal pathway
Vincenzo Romei
Centre for studies and research in Cognitive Neuroscience - CsrNC, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)
2019/03 – 2023/04
Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain
Morris Freedman, Robert Chen, Malcolm Binns
Division of Neurology, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto (Canada); Division of Neurology, University Health Network - UHN, Toronto (Canada)
2019/07 - 2023/11
Correlating accurate intuition with learning styles and sensory modality preferences
Julie Beischel, Lisa Conboy
Windbridge Research Center, Tucson, Arizona (USA); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
2019/01 – 2021/10
Mind-shaped body: A new conceptual framework beyond the placebo effect connecting expectations to disease outcome
Francesco Pagnini, Paolo Banfi, Cesare Cavalera, Eleonora Volpato
Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy); Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan (Italy)
2019/02 – 2022/03
The Effects of DLPFC Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on States of Consciousness and Psyckokinesis Performance
Etzel Cardeña, Rainer Goebel
Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology, Lund University (Sweden); Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
Canceled
Blurring the line between human and robot? Mapping and manipulating the socialness gradient in the brain
Ruud Hortensius, Emily Cross
Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - cSCAN, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow (UK)
2019/05 – 2021/09
Unraveling the mechanisms behind automatic and emotional control: Psychophysiological, cortical excitability and functional connectivity measures
Ignacio Obeso, Jose Ángel Pineda Pardo, Claudia Ammann, Lina Guida, Úrsula Alcañas, David Mata Marín
Centro Integral en Neurociencias A.C. - CINAC, Fundación Investigación HM Hospitales, Madrid (Spain)
2019/02 – 2023/03
Spiritual states induced by ayahuasca, and the involvement of the reward system
Miguel Castelo-Branco, Gisela Lima, Miguel Raimundo, Pedro Fonseca, Carla Cavaleiro, Lorena Petrella, Célia Cabral, Antero Abrunhosa
Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health - ICNAS, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2019/10 - 2022/09
Phenomenological experience and neurophysiological correlates of shamanic trance in healthy individuals
Olivia Gosseries
GIGA research center, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège (Belgium)
2019/07 - 2021/11
Electrophysiological and genetic factors associated with hypnosis, suggestibility and hypnotic phenomenology
William McGeown, Irving Kirsch, Giuliana Mazzoni, Rothwelle Tate, Annalena Venneri
School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK)
2019/06 - 2024/09
Embodied morality: Autonomic signatures of spontaneous deception in mindfulness trained practitioners
Giorgia Ponsi, Maria Serena Panasiti, Cristiano Crescentini, Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
2019/10 - 2024/07
A replication project to acquire pragmatically useful information from the future
Stephan Schwartz, Randall DeMattei, Debra Katz
Atlantic University, Virginia Beach (USA)
2019/01 – 2022/03
Testing a neurobiological model of inner speech processing
Bo Yao
Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester (UK)
2019/09 – 2022/01
More thankful, less stressed? Gratitude and physiological reactions to stress
Brenda O'Connell, Stephen Gallagher, Brian Leavy
Centre for Mental Health & Community Research, Department of Psychology, Maynooth University (Ireland); Study of Stress, Anxiety and Health Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick (Ireland)
2019/09 - 2023/10
The middle-age brain
Marinella Cappelletti, Maria Herrojo Ruiz
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2019/03 – 2024/02
The power of mind: Altering cutaneous sensations by autosuggestion
Elena Azañón, Esther Kuehn
Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany)
2019/11 – 2023/11
The neural circuitry underlying error monitoring during social cognition
Teresa Sousa, Miguel Castelo-Branco, João Castelhano, Verónica Figueiredo, Andreia Pereira
Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health - ICNAS, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2019/10 - 2022/09
Neuroimaging of lucid dreaming
Martin Dresler, Florian Krause
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2019/09 - 2023/07
Mapping the neurophenomenology of the wake-sleep transition
Tristan Bekinschtein, Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar, Jon Simons, Valdas Noreika
Consciousness and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge (UK)
2019/05 – 2024/01
Inconclusive project
Inconclusive project
Changing human time perception in virtual reality emotional priming: A transcranial direct current stimulation study
André Silva, Ana Costa, Luke Jones, Ana Gomes
Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, University of Coimbra (Portugal); Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester (UK)
2019/04 – 2024/08
The role of interneurons in spatial memory
Tiago G. Oliveira, Patrícia Monteiro, Vítor Pinto, André Miranda, Ricardo Silvestre, Luísa Marinha
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2019/10 - 2023/03
Frontostriatal neurophysiological underpins of decision-making
Hugo Leite-Almeida, Madalena Esteves, Marco Rafael Guimarães, Ana Margarida Cunha, Joana Mendes, Armando Almeida
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2020/02 - 2023/06
Inducing lucid dreams with optimized sensory cues
Benjamin Baird, Giulio Tononi, Stephen LaBerge
Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA)
2019/03 – 2022/10
Research-inspired cognitive empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT)
Giorgia Committeri, Carlo Sestieri, Matteo Frisoni, Agustina Fragueiro, Annalisa Tosoni
Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical sciences, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University G. d' Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
2019/09 - 2023/04
Analysis of brain activity in adolescents with different levels of emotional regulation
Jordi Solbes Matarredona, María Ángeles Gómez Climent, Samuel Hernández González, Carlos Caurín Alonso, Albert Clemente Soriano, Jose Luis Alba Robles, Rodrigo Zequeira Cotes
Faculty of Education, University of Valencia (Spain); Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain); Faculty of Psychology and Education, International University of Rioja, Logroño (Spain)
2019/02 – 2020/07
Encoding of the kinematics of observed actions in the responses of mirror neurons
Antonino Casile
Center for Translational Neurophysiology - CTNSC, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
2019/04 – 2023/01
Driving synaptic plasticity in motor-to-visual neural pathways to enhance action prediction
Alessio Avenanti, Marco Zanon
Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy)
2019/10 - 2023/06
The implicit cognition of interpersonal attraction
Joana Arantes, John Wearden, Mavilde Arantes, Emanuel Albuquerque
Psychology Research Center - CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)
2019/06 – 2024/02
Neural mechanisms underlying unconscious working memory
Albert Compte, João Barbosa, Josep Valls-Sole
Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer - IDIBAPS, Barcelona (Spain)
2019/05 – 2021/09
A comparison of NN-DMT, Changa & 5-MeO-DMT and the Near-death Experience: Qualitative analyses and reviews of the neuroscience
Pascal Michael, David Luke
Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, Greenwich University, London (UK); Psychedelic Research Group, Imperial College London (UK)
2020/01 – 2024/05
Dissecting dynamical components of complex decision-making using a computer game-based task
Gautam Agarwal, Zachary Mainen, Alfonso Renart, Mattia Bergomi
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa (Portugal)
2019/01 – 2024/09
When style matters: Do oculomotor fingerprint and brain dynamics explain visual exploration and memory strategies?
Maurizio Corbetta, Andrea Zangrossi
Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine - VIMM, Fondazione per la Ricerca Biomedica Avanzata, Padova (Italy); Padova Neuroscience Center – PNC, Università di Padova (Italy)
2019/04 – 2023/11