CORRELATED HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY IN THE SENSORY AND ESP PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL AND NONEMOTIONAL VIDEOTAPES.
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Title
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CORRELATED HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY IN THE SENSORY AND ESP PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL AND NONEMOTIONAL VIDEOTAPES.
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Identifier
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AAI8401483
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identifier
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8401483
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Creator
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MAHER, MICHAELEEN CONSTANCE.
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Contributor
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Gertrude Schmeidler
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental
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Abstract
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EEG alpha was monitored from bilateral temporal-parietal sites while 10 male and 10 female dextrals attempted to use ESP to fathom the contents of two videotapes which were played, in random order, in a distant room. After each ESP session, subjects reported their mentations. Subsequently EEG alpha was monitored while subjects viewed the videotapes (again randomly sequenced) on a TV monitor. One of the videotapes contained material with emotion including properties, while the other videotape was generally devoid of emotional content. An ANOVA showed a marginally significant effect of greater relative right hemispheric processing for males when viewing the emotional as compared to the nonemotional videotape, while females' data showed nonsignificant tendencies toward the converse hemispheric activation pattern. Trends in the ESP data were similar to those in the sensory data. A repeated measures ANOVA for males' and females' sensory and ESP data showed a significant tape x hemisphere x sex interaction (p < .05).;Although when subjects attempted to match their mentations to the videotapes, results were at chance, one of two outside blind judges exhibited extrachance accuracy in matching the mentation reports to the videotapes (p < .015, two-tailed).;Differences in individuals' mean laterality indices for processing the two videotapes in the sensory condition were suggestively correlated with their respective differences in processing the two videotapes in the ESP condition (p < .07, two-tailed). A separate correlation for nine subjects whose mentations were correctly matched to the videotapes by all three judges (the subjects themselves and both outside judges) was both significant (p < .03, two-tailed) and significantly higher than the asymmetry correlation for the subjects whose mentations had shown a mixed pattern of judging, or whose mentations had been incorrectly matched to the videotapes by all judges. The data demonstrate converging lines of evidence for conscious and unconscious ESP.;Eysenck's theory which predicts that extraverts should produce significantly more alpha than introverts because of characteristically lower levels of arousal than introverts, was supported by significant positive correlations between extraversion and alpha abundance. Subjects' extraversion, however, did not correlate with their psi success.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
