Processes underlying the phenomena of mysterious minds: Laboratory evidence for esp

Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, and Other Extraordinary People

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-64

  Watt, Caroline A ^a   Irwin, Harvey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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