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SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation
Cognitive Sciences Laboratory
Memorandum
SG1J
Date:
15 March 1993
To :
From :
Ed May
Subject:
Dolan: Replication
SG1J
SG1A
As you know we have had Dr. Yuri Dolan as a visitor in our laboratory. One of his claims, and we
was that isolated individuals' brain waves are modified by the inten-
tion of a remote agent. At this time we believe that his protocols meets western standards and, we are
unable to identify any meaningful flaws.
He has been extremely cooperative with us and was willing to have us conduct a few demonstration trials
at Stanford. A rough outline of the protocol follows:
(1) One subject was wired for occipital EEG and was sequestered in a standard shield room commonly
in use for such measurements.
(2) During the time of 1 hour, we conducted four 10 minute trials. The first 5 minutes was a control
period followed by an effort period during which Dr. Dolan attempted to mentally "arouse" the
subject (i.e., decrease alpha production).
The dependent variable is the ratio of the mean of alpha power in the effort period divided by the mean
of the alpha during the preceding control period. Four trials is not enough to demonstrate a significant
effect, but all four trials produced ratios less than 1. Dolan was very encouraged given the rather hur-
ried nature of the demonstration experiment.
Trial 3 exhibited the smallest ratio and I have included the power/frequency plot for your information.
In this trial, it is possible to visually see the decrease of alpha.
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di0312a: Activation, Trial 3 .: 0.7051
Ration of Power = effect
CTRL
= 0,705
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Power (microvolts-2)
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5 MIN CONTROL
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5 MIN effort
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