A method to explore the possibility of nonlocal correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated animal subjects

BioSystems

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-216

  Thaheld, Fred H ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory stimulation; Chimpanzees; Consciousness; Dolphins; Nonlocality; Patterned photostimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transferred potential; Visual evoked potential

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOLPHIN; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; PAN (APE); PRIMATES;

EID: 1542617056     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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