Project Activity (Second Year)

• Study on Analyzing Methods of Human Body Functions Using Various Simultaneous Measurements (VSM)

  by Bio-Emission Group

Results of the Second Year of the 5-Year-Project of Science and Technology Agency of Japan

We have been doing many experiments including below themes in the second year.

1. EEG Change in Anomalous Perception Task Related to Somatic Sensation
2. A Study of Remote Anomalous Cognition with Judgment and Measurement of Auditory Evoked Potential and Background EEG
3. EEG Analysis of Children while Concentrating on Tasks
4. An Experiment on Auditory Evoked Potential at Imaginary Measurement

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Researches in the Second Year

1. EEG Change in Anomalous Perception Task Related to Somatic Sensation 1)

A qigong master (qi sender) and an ordinary person (qi receiver) were placed in a sensory-shielded state made with a metal box etc., and anomalous perception by qigong was attempted while both were connected to electroencephalographs. The sender transmitted qi during a randomly selected half one minute period. The receiver attempted to perceive the time zone. Over 20 trials, the receiver was not able to perceive the true sending time zone with any statistical significance. However, a statistically significant difference was observed in the alpha wave amplitude in her electroencephalogram between the sending and non-sending time zones at the corresponding region to her somatic sensory and motor area in the period 13 to 17 seconds from the start of the task. This result not only suggests the existence of anomalous perception in the subconscious but also has an interesting consistency with results of our experiments on anomalous perception related to visual sensation on the point that the alpha wave amplitude in the receiver's electroencephalograms increases on his / her sensory area related to a loaded anomalous perception task at 10 or more seconds after the start of the task.

Left is a receiver. Right is the qigong master as the sender. Electrodes of EEG are attached on their heads.

Sender: A white belt with a respiration sensor is around sender's body. Gamma ray and beta ray are measured by survey meters near the sender. Through a bored hole of a screen, the sender inserts his right hands into a metal box under a blue cloth. For every trial, experimenters show their commands by a mark on a paper which is set right side of the sender.

Receiver: Receiver's eyes are blind with a mask and his ears are closed by plugs, because he is not disturbed by some noise caused by surroundings.

2. A Study of Remote Anomalous Cognition with Judgment and Measurement of Auditory Evoked Potential and Background EEG 2)

The remote anomalous cognition (AC) experiment in which guessing is performed by many participants simultaneously is reported. Sixty-two participants, who have not claimed to have anomalous mental functions, guessed the location and the behavior of the target person simultaneously and recorded their mentation. The mentation reports were compared to records of the target person's behavior and ordered according to the degree of their coincidence. A significant hit rate about one target person was obtained in one session out of the two, each of which contained three target persons. The background electroencephalograms (EEGs) and the auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) of one target person were measured during the session, and the change in AEP was obtained during the AC period. The results were interesting, but are not sufficient evidence of AC because of the small number of data; further studies are needed to elucidate AC.

3. EEG Analysis of Children while Concentrating on Tasks 3)

EEGs of four children, ranging in age between 4 and 11 years, were measured to investigate the learning process for a particular capability in the brain. The following points were seen. From the analysis of alpha waves: (1) Concentrating ability increased with age. (2) For the younger children, concentrating without materials to gaze at seemed to be difficult. From theta waves: (1) Fm theta was sometimes observed. From theta waves: (1) Linguistic assignments activated the left hemisphere. (2) Even with frequent visual stimulation, functions of the right hemisphere, such as making a momentary decision or inner visualization, were not presented clearly.

4. An Experiment on Auditory Evoked Potential at Imaginary Measurement 4)

Von Neumann's theory of measurement was tested for the crisis of realism founded on the break down of Bell's inequality. The theory asserts that contraction of a wave packet in quantum mechanics by measurement is caused by out-of-brain consciousness. Imaginary measurement was carried out for the macro-system superposing two different states. The auditory evoked potentials of the measurer were compared between the time of the realization and non-realization of the imaginary measurement. The result showed the statistically significant difference in the peak amplitudes of P300s which appear in accompaniment to discrimination tasks. The explanation of this significant difference may be difficult from the viewpoint that the consciousness of the measurer does not influence the contraction of wave packets.

References

1) Mikio YAMAMOTO, Masahiko HIRASAWA, Hideyuki KOKUBO, Kimiko KAWANO, Tomoko KOKADO, Tsuyoshi HIRATA and Nakahiro YASUDA: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 15, 88-96, 1997.

2) Hideyuki KOKUBO, Tsuyoshi HIRATA, Masahiko HIRASAWA, Masayuki HIRAFUJI, Takaaki OHTA, Shinya ITO, Tomoko KOKADO and Mikio YAMAMOTO: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 15, 97-108, 1997.

3) Kimiko KAWANO, Mikio YAMOAMOTO, Masahiko HIRASAWA, Hideyuki KOKUBO and Nakahiro YASUDA: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 15, 109-114, 1997.

4) Masahiko HIRASAWA, Akira FURUKAWA and Mikio YAMAMOTO: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 15, 253-259, 1997