Project information
Project information
Sensing the dark: Experimental research of sensory deprivation experience (SENSIO)
(SENSIO)
- Project Identification
- MUNI/IGA/1264/2020
- Project Period
- 1/2021 - 12/2021
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Masaryk University
- Internal grant agency MU
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Arts
How can special anthropomorphic agents (SAA) become real for believers? While the cognitive science of religion attempts to solve this question by looking at what is in our minds, the innate cognitive processes alone cannot explain the SAA experiences without considering the influence of culture. The presented project will experimentally induce a specific experience of the unpleasant sensed presence of SAA to disentangle the intertwined relationship between cognition and culture.
Publications
Total number of publications: 4
2024
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Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence
Religion Brain & Behavior, year: 2024, DOI
2022
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Sensing spirits and other dangerous beings : how uncertainty makes us feel the unseen presence
Year: 2022, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
2021
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Sensing spirits and other dangerous beings : “Hardwired” intuitions, or cultural learning - or both?
Year: 2021, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Sensing spirits and other dangerous beings : Why are ghosts inherent to every human culture?
Year: 2021, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings