This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on
anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.” This exercise served as a much …

Background The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has led many countries to opt for social
quarantine of the population. During this quarantine, communication systems have been …

An imbalance between top-down and bottom-up processing on perception (specifically, over-
reliance on top-down processing) can lead to anomalous perception, such as illusions. One …

It has been hypothesized that humans have evolved a hypersensitivity to detect intentional
agents at a perceptual level, as failing to detect these agents may potentially be more …

* Winner of the Parapsychological Association Book Award 2021* Outlining the scientific
evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous …

There are differences in Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) within many species. In
humans high SPS refers to greater responsivity to stimuli, slower, deeper processing …

This study investigated whether sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is associated with a
perceptual advantage, rather than just heightened brain, emotional and behavioural …

This investigation tested the effect of priming on pareidolia (the hearing of illusory words in
ambiguous stimuli). Participants (41 women, 20 men, mean age 29.95 years) were assigned …

This study used a modified White Christmas task to examine reports of electronic voice
phenomena (EVP) within random noise. Following familiarization with the concept of EVP …

Pareidolia is a kind of misperception caused by meaningless, ambiguous stimuli perceived
with meaning. Pareidolia in a built environment may trigger the emotions of residents, and …