Replication of the Anticipatory Psychophysiological Effects of Predictable and Unpredictable Stimuli

Record summary

This line of work tested whether autonomic activity changes before randomly selected emotional or neutral stimuli, a paradigm commonly called presentiment. It matters because physiological anticipation can be compared with ordinary cue learning, preprocessing artifacts, habituation, and poststimulus contamination. The named literature includes attempts to reproduce earlier findings under more explicit controls, with results that have not produced a stable consensus. Researchers should identify the exact article and protocol rather than treating all presentiment studies as interchangeable evidence for precognition.