Grants 2020
Title
Researchers
Institution
Duration
Database
Results
Environmental sensitivity, personality and perceptual experiences associated with non-conventional healing practices
Alejandro Parra, Juan Carlos Argibay, Patricia Arca Mena
Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Canceled
World-relative object motion: How the brain detects object motion while we are moving
Valentina Sulpizio
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome (Italy)
2021/10 – 2024/01
Anticipation and experience of stressful situations and their psychobiological impact on providing pre-hospital emergency medicine care
Mark Wetherell, Jeff Doran
Department of Psychology, Northumbria University Newcastle (UK); Great North Air Ambulance Service (UK)
2021/09 - 2024/10
Exploring the role of "Enchantment" in psi phenomena
Rense Lange, James Houran
Integrated Knowledge Systsems - IKS, Chatham (USA); ISLA - Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia, Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal)
2021/06 – 2022/09
What mechanisms and computations does the brain use to solve complex decision problems?
Nicholas Furl
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham (UK)
2021/07 – 2023/06
The role of non-verbal behaviour on placebo and nocebo effects. Psychophysiological experiments
Magne Arve Flaten, Hojjat Daniali, Per Aslaksen, Ted Kaptchuk, Mollie Ruben
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway); University of Tromsø (Norway); Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
2021/02 – 2024/11
Luminous dancing fairies in weightlessness: How gravity shapes conscious experiences
Elisa Ferrè
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)
2021/12 – 2024/12
Fear in action: How Pavlovian fear learning shapes goal-directed motor responses
Francesca Starita, Giuseppe di Pellegrino
Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience - CsrNC, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)
2021/03 – 2024/03
Investigating the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), anomalous experiences, and precognitive performance
Elizabeth Roxburgh, David Vernon, Malcolm Schofield
Psychology Department, Canterbury Christ Church University (UK); University of Derby (UK)
2021/12 – 2024/11
Cerebrovascular hypothesis of stress-induced behavioral alterations
Ana Paula Silva, Filipa Baptista, Ana Rita Gaspar, Ricardo Leitão, Catarina Gomes
Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology - CIBB, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/09 – 2024/09
The social code in cingulate-hippocampal circuits: The role of memory in social contests
Emanuel Fernandes, João Peça, Carolina Kunicki, Joana Guedes, Ana Cardoso
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/02 – 2024/09
Psychophysiology of highly superior autobiographical memory: Shedding light on the mind of people who never forget
Valerio Santangelo, Sabrina Fagioli
Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences & Education, University of Perugia (Italy); Roma Tre University (Italy)
2021/09 – 2025/05
Redefining the boundaries between cognition and action through the psychophysiological investigation of binary decisions
Michele Scaltritti, Simone Sulpizio
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Italy); Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
2021/02 – 2023/09
Mindfulness meditation state and trait through the eyes of brain computational modelling
Laura Marzetti
Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)
2021/10 – 2025/03
Age-related changes in motor-cognitive dual-tasking: An electrophysiological investigation of interference at the level of sub-task elements
Subhobrata Mitra, Christina Howard
Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University (UK)
2021/10 – 2024/05
Mentation report analysis across distinct states of consciousness: A linguistic approach
Giulio Bernardi, Giulia Avvenuti, Michele Bellesi, Valentina Elce, Emanuela Merelli
IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (Italy); University of Camerino (Italy)
2021/02 – 2024/02
Beyond "mindfulness" and toward a modern science of meditative mastery and spiritual transformation
Matthew Sacchet, Diego Pizzagalli, Remko van Lutterveld, Marta Bianciardi
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)
2021/03 – 2024/02
Zooming in on the true neural mechanisms of phenomenal consciousness
Simon van Gaal, Andres Canales-Johnson, Robin Ince, Srivas Chennu
Amsterdam, Brain and Cognition - ABC, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Cambridge University (UK)
2021/04 – 2024/02
Attitudes and beliefs as predictors of psi effects in a pseudo-gambling task
Lance Storm
School of Psychology, University of Adelaide (Australia)
2022/01 – 2023/11
A telephone telepathy study: Does genetic relatedness influence psychic abilities?
Helané Wahbeh
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)
2021/03 – 2023/09
Living in a dream: Body and self-experience during waking and dream states in depersonalisation
Jane Aspell, Anna Ciaunica, Bigna Lenggenhager, Jennifer Windt
School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation, Chelmsford (UK)
2021/04 – 2024/04
Can the time needed to process visual information following a saccade be used to predict variations in neural measures of working memory and well-being?
Corinna Haenschel, John Barbur, Emsal Llapashtica
Department of Psychology, City, University of London (UK)
2021/04 – 2024/07
A latent profile analysis and structural equation modelling of paranormal belief, psychopathological symptoms, and well-being
Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan
Health, Psychology and Communities, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
2021/02 – 2023/04
Investigating the role of expertise in the predictive coding framework combining time resolved neural and behavioural evidence
Marie Smith, Ines Mares, Louise Ewing, Fraser Smith
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)
2021/08 – 2024/07
From inner to dyadic connection: The effect of mindfulness intervention on mother-infant bio-behavioural synchrony
Maria Spinelli, Chiara Suttora, Filippo Zappasodi
Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy); Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna (Italy)
2021/09 – 2024/05
Copy me, copy you: Investigating the development of facial mimicry
Carina de Klerk, Javier Andreu-Perez
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester (UK)
2021/12 – 2025/05
Stimulating compassion: Using transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) to probe compassionate behaviour
Sunjeev Kamboj
Department Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London (UK)
2022/02 – 2024/07
The me and the I: Dissociating ownership and agency in sensorimotor processing
Ana Pinheiro, Sonja Kotz, Michael Schwartze
Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal); Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
2021/09 – 2025/08
Multifunctional mediums? An exploration of the contemporary social psychological function of mediums and mediumship in the UK
Deborah Earnshaw, James Thompson
School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University (UK)
2021/06 – 2022/11
Uncertainty as an elicitor or modulator of emotion and associated psychophysiology
Jayne Morriss
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading (UK)
2021/10 – 2023/05
A swing between the inner and the outer worlds: Exploring the function of the frontal aslant tract with transcranial magnetic stimulation
Luigi Cattaneo, Sara Parmigiani
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento (Italy)
2021/09 – 2024/11
Investigation of non-inferential perception using a 3D-computer-assisted dowsing task
Jorge Moll, Julie Weingartner, Maria Stewart, Cristiano Junqueira
D'Or Institute for Research and Education, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Scients Institute, Palo Alto (USA)
2021/01 – 2024/12
Mind over matter: Using cognitive reappraisal and neurofeedback to control pain
Brianna Beck
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK)
2021/09 – 2023/04 Inconclusive project
Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)
Callum Cooper
Research Centre for Psychology & Social Sciences, University of Northampton (UK)
2021/01 – 2024/06
In your skin: The psychophysiology of touch observation
Bettina Forster
Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London (UK)
2021/09 – 2024/06
The role of nucleus accumbens in the perception of natural rewards
Carina Cunha, Ana João Rodrigues, Nivaldo Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bárbara Coimbra, Ana Verónica Domingues, Gabriela Martins
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute - ICVS, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal); Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York City (USA)
2021/06 – 2024/11
Sleep and dreaming after a near-death experience. An exploratory study using wrist actigraphy
Nicole Lindsay, Natasha Tassell-Matamua, Rosemary Gibson
School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North (New Zealand)
2021/11 – 2024/08
The adapting brain: Preparing for parenthood
Lluís Fuentemilla, Estela Cámara, Susana Carmona, Chris Baldassano, Francesc Fargas, Josué García
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona (Spain); University Hospital Quirón Dexeus, Barcelona (Spain); Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain)
2021/10 – 2025/09
Revealing the roots of remote helping - An investigation of macroscopic entanglement correlations and associated psi-facilitating features in attention focusing facilitation experiments
Karolina A. Kirmse, Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg (Germany); University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)
2021/03 – 2023/04 Inconclusive project
Exploring the use of floatation tanks as a means to induce psi-conducive states of consciousness
Glenn Hitchman, Callum Cooper
Research Centre for Psychology & Social Sciences, University of Northampton (UK)
2021/07 – 2025/09
Understanding the brain mechanisms of death-denial for fostering mindfulness-based existential resilience
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Yair Dor-Ziderman
The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa (Israel); Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
2022/01 – 2024/01
The control of attentional diversion: A psychophysiological approach
John Marsh, Federica Degno, Robert Hughes
Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston (UK); Royal Holloway University of London, Egham (UK)
2021/10 - 2024/09
Dynamic eye-movement encoding in human cortex using ultra-high field fMRI (7Tesla)
Alessio Fracasso
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
2021/10 – 2023/09
Comparing cognitive styles among parapsychology researchers, psi-believers, and skeptics
Marieta Pehlivanova, Bruce Greyson
Division of Perceptual Studies - DOPS, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)
2021/03 – 2023/12
Does restricting physical freedom broaden mental freedom? The effect of REST-floatation in adolescents
Amir Raz, Uri Maoz, Elnaz Lashgari
Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, Irvine (USA)
2021/11 - 2023/11
Inconclusive project
Inconclusive project
Analysis of an entropic anomaly in 23 years of truly random data
Dean Radin
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)
2022/01 - 2023/02
Sensory entrainment for improving spatial navigation
Mireia Torralba Cuello, Salvador Soto-Faraco, Lluis Fuentemilla, José Ángel Blat
Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain); University of Barcelona (Spain)
2021/09 – 2024/08
Decoding sound symbolism in visual cortex
Petra Vetter, Carolyn McGettigan
Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); University College London (UK)
2021/11 – 2025/06
The premotor roots of musical beat perception and imagery: A neurophysiological investigation
Carlotta Lega, Virginia Penhune, Luigi Cattaneo
Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
2021/09 – 2024/11
The hidden rhythm of interpersonal (sub-)movement coordination
Alice Tomassini, Alessandro D'Ausilio, Julien Laroche
Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication - CTNSC, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ferrara (Italy)
2021/06 – 2023/06
Physiological correlates to variations in ultra-weak photon emissions during periods of focused intent
John Kruth
Rhine Research Center, Durham (USA)
2021/05 – 2023/03
Neurophysiological bases of decision-making processes: Dissociating risk and uncertainty in the human brain
Tiago Paiva, Carina Fernandes, Fernando Barbosa, João Marques-Teixeira, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Carlos Seixas, Rita Pasion, Carlos Campos
Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto (Portugal)
2021/06 – 2024/05
In God's shoes: Embodying the avatar of the supreme moral authority modulates psychophysiological indices of one's own morality
Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Michael Schepisi, Althea Frisanco, Gaetano Tieri
Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
2021/06 – 2023/09
Brain routes to creativity: Uncovering creative flow in Jazz with neuromodulation
Henrique Fernandes, Jakub Vohryzek, Ana Coelho, Morten Kringelbach, Peter Vuust
Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University (Denmark); University of Oxford (UK)
2021/01 – 2023/03
Advancements on the aware mind-brain: New insights about the neural correlates of meditation states and traits
Antonino Raffone, Vasil Kolev, Peter Malinowski, Juliana Yordanova, Roumen Kirov
Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy); Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria); Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
2021/03 – 2024/09
Beyond your own body: Extending the bodily self to the neuroaesthetics of interactions
Andrea Orlandi, Matteo Candidi, Martina Fanghella, Quentin Moreau
Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
2021/02 – 2023/07
The whole is more than the sum of its parts: Elucidating the link between sleep quality and well-being by integrating cross-modal networks
Tessa Blanken, Denny Borsboom
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2021/09 - 2023/03
Emotional distraction: Contextual modulation of attentional capture
Maurizio Codispoti, Cristina Filannino
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy)
2021/04 – 2023/02
The origin of the sublime power in the brain: An integrated EEG-TMS study
Eleonora Maggioni, Paolo Brambilla, Giandomenico Schiena, Alice Chirico, Andrea Gaggioli, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan (Italy); Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy); Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
2021/04 – 2024/03
Closing the loop: Using real-time EEG to mutually enlighten first and third-person perspectives on the self
Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Lukas Hecker, Stefan Schmidt
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)
2021/10 – 2024/06
Peace of mind and emotion regulation: Survey-based, behavioural, and neuroscientific investigations
Pilleriin Sikka
Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku (Finland)
2021/01 – 2024/05
Assessing static and dynamic effects of mindfulness meditation on peripersonal space
Luca Simione, Salvatore Chiarella
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council - CNR, Rome (Italy)
2021/11 – 2024/04
How body ownership shapes tactile awareness: Inducing phantom sensations and measuring their electrophysiological correlates in immersive virtual reality
Carlotta Fossataro, Valentina Bruno, Alice Rossi Sebastiano, Francesca Garbarini
Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy)
2021/04 – 2024/01
Non-conscious influences on expected and subjective value in economic decisions
Fredrik Bergström, Jorge Manuel de Albuquerque Almeida, Johan Eriksson, Bruno de Sousa
Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/10 - 2024/10
The psychology of the living and the dead: Interpersonal psychology in the afterlife
André Mata
Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
2021/02 – 2025/01
Mindfulness and psychedelics: A neurophenomenological approach to the characterization of acute and sustained response to DMT in experienced meditators
Milan Scheidegger, Daniel Meling, Michael Kometer, Dario Dornbierer
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich (Switzerland); University Medical Center Freiburg (Germany)
2021/10 – 2024/05
Italian research group on mediumship. Mediumistic abilities testing protocol
Laura Liberale, Patrizio Tresoldi, Ines Testoni, Sara Pompele, Erika Iacona, Gianmarco Biancalani
Nemesi Aps, Padova (Italy)
2021/01 – 2024/05
Evaluation of psychological traits, pain perception and muscular strength in trance experts
Olivia Gosseries, Paul Hollanders, Yannick Lafon
GIGA Research Center, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège (Belgium)
2022/01 – 2023/11
Crossmodal perception in blind individuals: Neural mechanisms and the role of mental imagery
Aline de Borst
Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Hamburg University (Germany); Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
2021/08 – 2025/02
Open-label choice blindness: Exploring the mechanism underlying auto-suggestion
Jeremy Olson, Despina Artenie, Ellen Langer, Jian Kong
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA); Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)
2022/05 – 2023/09
Probing the plasticity of the action observation network with virtual reality and brain imaging
Antonino Casile
Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
Canceled
Psi at home: An adaptable protocol for psi experiments with selected cohorts
Peter Bancel, Mario Varvoglis, Jocelyne Boban, Miriam Gablier
Institut Métapsychique International - IMI, Paris (France)
2021/02 – 2023/03
Finding the light: Neural and pharmacological evidence of pure consciousness
Heleen Slagter, Sander Nieuwenhuis, Henk Barendregt, Ruben Laukkonen
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Institute of Psychology, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)
2021/10 – 2023/09
Study of end-of-life paranormal phenomena recognized by palliative care health professionals in Portugal
Úrsula Dalcolmo, Manuela Bertão, Francisca Rêgo, Luísa Castro
Departamento de Medicina da Comunidade, Informação e Decisão em Saúde - MEDCIDS, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
2021/03 – 2024/04
Large scale online testing of psi abilities to identify and test talented individuals
Arnaud Delorme
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma (USA)
2021/04 – 2024/11
Phenomenology and neuropsychology of practice and exceptional experiences in highly trained Kundalini yoga practitioners
Thilo Hinterberger, Madeleine Hipp
University Clinic of Regensburg (Germany)
Canceled
A trait-and-state analysis of precognitive remote viewing focusing on gender, emotions, and pregnancy status
Julia Mossbridge, Mark Boccuzzi, Kirsten Cameron
The Institute for Love and Time - TILT, Sebastopol (USA); Windbridge Institute, LLC, Tucson (USA)
2021/01 – 2022/09
Dynamics of meditation: The influence of intensive shamatha training on posture, perception, endogenous neural activity, and predictive anticipatory activity during meditation
Jonathan Schooler, Bruce Wallace, James Elliott
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
2022/02 – 2026/01
Neuroanatomical correlates of wellbeing in a mindfulness and religious exercises program
Paulo Dias, Ângela Leite, Bruno Nobre, Bruce Fischl
Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga (Portugal)
2021/11 – 2024/11
Pathways from prenatal and postnatal stress to sleep quality across childhood: The role of the amygdala and cortisol
Desana Kocevska, Annemarie Luik
Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2021/09 – 2024/04
Schema-based temporal memory in parietal cortex (SCHETEMP)
Matteo Frisoni, Paolo Capotosto
Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara (Italy)
2021/10 – 2023/11
EEG activation in monozygotic and dizygotic twins to assess heritability of pre- and post-stimulus response to visual stimuli
William Bunney, Richard Stein, Julie Patterson
Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine (USA)
2022/01 – 2024/11
AECKO: Towards a science of anomalous experience field studies
Bryan Williams, Gerald Solfvin
Psychical Research Foundation, Texas (USA)
2021/10 – 2024/06
Illuminating the dreamer's perceptual experiences
Delphine Oudiette, Ken Paller, Susan Florczak, Karen Konkoly, Saba Al-youssef
Institut du Cerveau, Paris (France); Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University, Evanston (USA)
2022/02 – 2024/07