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(U) Table 2
is the overall project milestone chart for FY 1988.
Table 2
(U) ENHANCED HUMAN PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION—FY 1988
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Objective C— Replications
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Objective D—Physiology
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Objective E—RV Parameters
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Task 3
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V COST SUMMARY (U)
(U) Table
3 shows the project
financial
status
as of
1 October
1988.
There were no
substantial financial difficulties during this reporting period.
Table
(U) SUMMARY OF FINANCES—FY 1988
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Date
Total
Expenditures
This Period ($K)
Total
Expenditures
To Date ($K)
' 31-Oct-87
78.563
78.563
28-Nov-87
84.622
163.185
26-Dec-87
112.803
275.988
23-Jan-88
53.971
329.959
20-Feb-88
108.667
438.626
19-Mar-88
97.594
536.220
16-Apr-88
82.215
618.435
14-May-88
92.767
711.202
1 l-Jun-88
87.689
798.891
09 -Jul- 8 8
81.397
880.288
06~Aug-88
99.325
979.613
03-Sep-88
68.299
1,047.912
01-oct-88
69.322
1,117.234
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4.
(U)
Objective A, Task 4—Gross Physiological Correlates
to RV
IPne
of
the persistent problems
in deploying RV
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vis
the
lack of
an
a priori method for assessing
the
quality of
a particular RV session.
The present exploratory
investigation
was an attempt
to discover whether external physiological cues could be
used
to discriminate accurate
from inaccurate sessions.
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In an exploratory attempt to learn more about this aspect of the RV process, 20
RV sessions, comprising the output of one subject from a separate experiment, were videotaped
and
analyzed
by
a
behavioral
psychologist
to
discover
if accurate
sessions
could
be
blindly
separated from inaccurate sessions by gross external physiological changes which occurred during
the RV
session.
Behaviors
defined
and
coded
included
latency
to
first
response,
head
movements, hand gestures, and interactive and descriptive verbalizations.
Frequency counts of
each behavior were made and correlated with a measure of the quality of the RV.
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Unfortunately for this analysis, the measure of RV quality showed no significant
RV
function.
Thus,
correlation between RV
quality and
the
behaviors
rated
could
not be
expected
to show
a
significant
relationship.
Results matched
this expectation;
there were no
significant correlations between the measure of RV quality and the behaviors noted.
There was a
non-significant trend in the positive direction for latency to
first response which
is similar to the
measurement of latency from stimulus
to response time measured
in another
pilot experiment
(see Task F-3).
It should also be noted that two behaviors of particular
interest, namely eye
movement and
facial expression, were not analyzed in
this study because
facial expression was
considered too subjective without multiple observers while the quality of the video recordings did
not permit accurate observation of eye movement.
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In
conclusion,
this
study
does
not
rule
out
the
possibility
that
external
physiological cues may
give important
clues
to
the
quality of RV.
It would be
necessary
to
conduct a similar study with a sample of known high-quality remote viewing.
5.
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Objective B, Task
1— Resource Library
(U) The
Parapsychology
Sources
of
Information
Center
(PSIC,
Rhea
A.
White,
Director)
has completed two years of a multi-year effort intended
to provide and maintain an
extensive data base
facility for parapsychological
literature, described
in a separate report.
The
overall
goal
is
to
have
the
data
base,
called
PsiLine,
include
bibliographic
information and
abstracts of the entire literature of parapsychology and related disciplines.
During the
first vear
of
a
multi-year
effort,
PSIC
purchased
the
necessary
hardware
and
software,
and
then
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13.
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Objective F, Task
1—Fundamental Parameters of RV
, Two different precognition experiments were conducted
during FY 1987.
The
first
of
these
involved
a well-calibrated viewer
(Viewer
372)
and used natural
Bay Area sites
as
targets.
Ten real-time
and
ten precognitive
trials
(counterbalanced)
yielded no statistical
evidence
for remote
viewing.
In
the second experiment,
4 viewers
contributed approximately 30
trials each
in
a similar counterbalanced
real-time
versus precognition protocol.
In
this
experiment,
however,
the
target material was photographs
from
a national magazine.
No statistical
evidence
for remote viewing was observed
in
this experiment.
In
a
third
experiment designed
to explore
the role
of feedback upon remote viewing
quality,
two of four viewers produced
independently highly significant
evidence
for remote viewing.
There was no correlation between
the quality
of RV and
the
intensity of
the
feedback for either of
the
significant
viewers.
These data do not generally support
the precognition model.
To
confirm
this,
we must examine
the validity of
the assumption
that
the
actual
feedback
is related
to
the consciously perceived
feedback.
In
other words,
we question what constituted
"enough"
feedback
to saturate
the RV
signal.
14.
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Objective
F, Task 2—Video Disk Training Technology
(U) The FY
1987
effort was aimed
at developing
a technology
for enhancing the
acquisition of remote viewing skills. One important factor in the development of a new skill
is the
ability to practice the skill under conditions similar to a test situation.
Until now, practice was a
time-consuming effort that required the services of a monitor and an assistant in order to ensure
a double-blind protocol.
With the advent of video disk technology coupled with
the random
number capability of a personal computer,
it has become possible to develop the capacity to do
multiple RV sessions at a single sitting as well as work on specific target features with the ease and
timeliness of a forced choice
task.
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Assembling
the components
of
the system
involved
the
purchase
of
a
video
camera, a video disk recorder, and a Macintosh computer.
The heart of the system
is the video
disk recorder,
a specialized machine making possible the recording of both static and dynamic
targets from a variety of video inputs.
Access to any target
is on the order of one-half second.
Each
10-inch disk can store 24,000
still
targets or up to
15 minutes of a motion
target.
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