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waves of the receiver during a period of 10 seconds around the sending time were analyzed at a 1-second interval.
30. Analysis of the Receiver's EEG in Remote Perception Task
Tong Zhang, Mikio Yamamoto,
Hideyuki Kokubo, Kimiko Kawano*,
Masataka Tanaka and Tomoko Kokado
(* Nippon Medical School)
Keywords: EEG, alpha activity, theta activity, frontal lobes, mental concentration, martial arts
In the present experiment, two experienced practitioners of a Japanese martial art were subjects. One acted as a sender while the other acted as a receiver. They were put in separate rooms with communication deprivation to perform a task of "remote action and perception". One run was made up of three successive 80-second trials during which only one 'sending' was performed in double-blinded and randomized conditions. Both physiological changes of the sender and the receiver were measured during the experiment. In this paper, changes of the mean power of and waves of the receiver during a period of 10 seconds around the sending time were analyzed at a 1-second interval.
Compared with values of the resting state (analysis 1), statistically significant decreases of activity were found in C4 and T6 areas, while statistically significant increases of the wave were found in Fp1, Fp2 and T5 areas ( p<0.05 ). However when compared to values during the period of non-sending (analysis 2), statistically significant changes ( p<0.05 ) of wave were found in T5, T6, O1 and O2 areas ( Fig .21 ).
In analysis 1 when compared with the resting state, a significant increase of the wave in the frontal area and a decrease of activity in the sensory-motor areas suggest the receiver is in a mental state of concentration on the task. However, the increase of activity in T5 area before sending time shown in analysis 2, and the decrease of activity in occipital areas and activity and activity in T6 area after sending time shown in analysis 1 and analysis 2 suggest the possibility of physiological changes related to the action of the sender or perception of the action of sending.
The analyses in this study are based on part of a series of experiments with the same subjects. Not only more sensitive analyzing methods and more data, but also comparison with ordinary people doing the same task is essential to confirm the possibility of "remote action and perception" in further studies. Meanwhile, physiological and psychological differences before and after receiving time also need to be analyzed.
Publications:
1) Zhang, T., Yamamoto, M., Kokubo, H., Kawano, K., Tanaka, M., and Kokado, T.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 20 (1): 458-465, 2001.
2) Yamamoto, M., Kokubo, H., Kokado, T., Haraguchi, S., Zhang, T., Tanaka, M., Parkhomtchouk, DV., Soma, T., and Kawano, K.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 19 (2): 437-452, 2001.
3) Kawano, K., Yamamoto, M., Kokubo, H., Tanaka, M., Zhang, T., Kokado, T., and Soma, T.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 20 (1): 453-457, 2001.
4) Tanaka, M., Yamamoto, M., Kokubo, H., Kokado, T., Zhang, T., Tanaka, M., Parkhomtchouk, DV., Kawano, K., and Soma, T.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 20 (1): 466-473, 2001.
5) Chen, W., Kokubo, H., Kokado, T., Zhang, T., Haraguchi, S., Kawano, K., and Yamamoto, M.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 20 (1): 473-479, 2001.
6) Kokubo, H., Yamamoto, M., Yamada, K., Kawano, K., Soma, T., Tanaka, M., Zhang, T., and Fukuda, N.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 20(1): 480-487, 2001.
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