As
part of her PhD thesis in cognitive psychology, Antonella Vannini conducted
four experiments using heart rate measurements in order to study the
retrocausal effect.
Each experimental trial was divided into 3 phases:
·
Phase 1, presentation, in
which 4 colors are shown one after the other on the computer screen for exactly
4 seconds. The heart rate is measured every second.
·
Phase 2, choice, in which
an image with 4 colored bars is shown in order to allow the subject to guess
the target color.
·
Phase 3, target, in which
the computer randomly selects the target color and shows it full screen.
The
hypothesis was that in the presence of a retrocausal effect, differences should
be observed between heart rates measured in phase 1 in correlation with the
target color of phase 3.
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