Correlated cerebral events between physically and sensory isolated pairs of subjects exposed to yoked circumcerebral magnetic fields.
In three different experiments pairs of unrelated people sitting in two different rooms were exposed simultaneously to different rates of circumcerebral rotations of weak, complex magnetic fields in order to produce "dynamic similarity". Quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) measurements were taken for one member of each pair in one room while the other sat in a closed chamber in another room and intermittently observed 5Hz, 8Hz, 10Hz, or 15Hz flashing lights. Reliable increases in QEEG power within specific frequencies over the right parietal region were observed during the similar-frequency light flashes when the shared temporal-spatial complexity of the circumcerebral rotating fields was based on 100ms, the average duration of normal microstates. The development of this experimental procedure could facilitate rational understanding of this class of "coincidence" phenomena.
Persinger
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Consciousness Research Laboratory, Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Sciences Programs, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada. mpersinger@laurentian.ca
Saroka
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Lavallee
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Booth
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Hunter
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Mulligan
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Koren
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Wu
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Gang
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