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Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000100130001-8 3. Identification of Neurophysiological Correlates Which Relate: to Paranormal Activities As part of the program to determine whether physiological correlates can be used as an indicator of paranormal functioning, measurements are obtained during a random selection of remote viewing experiments. In these experiments the subject is connected to physiological recording instruments and a four-channel polygraph. Baseline and experimental measures of the following observables are made: 1) Galvanic skin response (GSR) is recorded using finger electrodes taped in place on second and fourth fingers: 2) Blood volume/pulse height is recorded using a reflected-light plethysmograph; 3) Unfiltered EEG is recorded from the right occipital region; 4) Percent-time in alpha (8-12 Hz) is recorded on the fourth channel. The alpha filter is a sharp cut-off digital type with essentially zero~pass outside the prescribed bandpass limits. During the course of an experiment the subject is asked to describe his perceptions as to the nature of the remote target. His comments are tape recorded and noted on the polygraph, along with the time. A corre- lation is then attempted between those descriptions which are found to be uniquely correct and accurate, and the corresponding sections of polygraph recording. Of the correlates being monitored, the one which seems the most promising is the unfiltered EEG. In our preliminary analysis of the data it appears that there is often an overall reduction in Eeu power in the twenty-second period just before a Sesject renders a correct description. Subsequent to this observation, we have learned that Janet Mitchell at the American Society for Psychical Research made very similar detailed observations in her studies with Subject 3, also in remote viewing experiments. Considerable data remain to be analyzed, and completion is targeted for the next reporting period. Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RQP96-00787R000100130001-8
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000100130001-8 ~ 4. Identification of the Nature of Paranormal Phenomena dnd Energy (a) 23rd Annual International Conference--Quantum Physics and Parapsychology, Geneva, Switzerland, August 26-27, 1974 A major input to the researchers Puthoff and Targ during the reporting period was afforded by attendance at a closed working conference sponsored by Parapsychology Foundaticn, Inc., New York. The conference was set up to provide discussion on the identification of the nature of paranormal phenomena and energy. The attendees and their affiliations are given in Table 75 along with the titles of the papers presented. A stgrificant outcome of the papers (and discussions which followed) was that data concerning paranormal processes are not in violation of but rather are commensurate with the basic principles of information theory and quantum processes. It was considered that this conclusion could be drawn even though the precise mechanisms still elude specification. A conservative summary or che conceptualizations involved includes the following: (1) Researchers in the area of psychokinesis appear to be plagued by results whose amplitudes have a signal-to-noise ratio near unity, re- gardless of the process or mechanism involved. A number of observations indicate that rather than simple perversity, what is being articulated is a coherence phenomenon involving partial mobilitation of system noise, and thus the magnitude constr2inz. That is, when a subject is asked to interact with an experimental setup, one often first observes a reduction in noise followed by a signal, as if the components of the noise spectrum had been brought into phase coherence, (Such an interpretation does not 30 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000100130001-8
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000100130001-8 Figure 4 SEQUENTIAL SAMPLING PROCEDURE q; = 0.4, qo = 0.6, a = 0.01, B = 0.01 aon * SESS Sea eRe TEATS ASPET, pmUblenr en aeeMtete Transmitted Lu Q z= 40 Tr) DECISION 1 WwW, Accept “1 as g 30 the Bit Being 2 , Transmitted o = 20 bE DECISION 2 ca 7 Accept “0” as ce 10 } | the Bit Being has ; . 0 10 20 30 40 50 ~ 60 70 80 NUMBER OF TRIALS CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF MATCHES AGAINST Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000100130001-8 At .
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