A response to Granqvist et al. "Sensed presence and mystical experiences are predicted by suggestibility, not by the application of transcranial weak magnetic fields" (multiple letters)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 380, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-347

  Persinger, M A ^a   Koren, S A ^a   Larsson, Marcus ^b   Larhammar, Dan ^c   Fredrikson, Mats ^c   Granqvist, Pehr ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUGGESTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 18144390602     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.03.060     Document Type: Letter

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