PERSINGER, Michael A.
Department of Psychology / Département de psychologie

Phone: (705) 675-1151, ext. 4826, 4824
Fax: (705) 675-4889
E-Mail: mpersinger@nickel.laurentian.ca


Chapters in Books / Chapitres de livres

Persinger, M.A. and Krippner, S. (1993). "Dream ESP experiments and geomagnetic activity". In Silver threads: 25 years of parapsychology research. Ed. by B. Kane, J. Millay and D. Brown. Westport, CT: Praeger, 39-53.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Near death experiences: determining the neuroanatomical pathways by experiential patterns and simulation in experimental settings." In Healing: beyond suffering and death. Ed. by L. Bessette. Montréal, QU: MNH, 277-286.


Journal Articles / Articles de revues

Moulden, J.A. and Persinger, M.A. (1996). "Visuospatial/vocabulary differences in boys and girls and a potential age-dependent drift in vocabulary proficiency." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82: 472-474.

Michon, A., Koren, S.A. and Persinger, M.A. (1996). "Attempts to simulate the association between geomagnetic activity and spontaneous seizures in rats using experimentally generated magnetic fields." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82: 619-626.

Freeman, J. and Persinger, M.A. (1996). "Repeated verbal interruptions during exposure to complex transcerebral magnetic fields elicit irritability: implications for opiate effects." Perceptual Motor Skills, 82: 639-642.

Persinger, M.A., Hart, B. and Thomas, A.W. (1996). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXX. Periodicities and energetic characteristics of a strobe-light luminosity during a geomagnetic storm." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82: 683-688.

Richards, P., Persinger, M.A. and Koren, S.A. (1996). "Modification of semantic memory in normal subjects by application across the temporal lobes of a weak (1 microT) magnetic field structure that promotes long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices." Electro- and Magnetobiology, 15 (2): 141-148.

Dubois, S. and Persinger, M.A. (1996). "Personality profiles of women who report and who do not report physical assault or sexual harassment: comparisons with traumatic brain injury." Social Behavior and Personality, 24: 87-94.

Carrey, N.J., Butter, H.J., Persinger, M.A. and Bialik, R.J. (1996). "Physiological and cognitive correlates of child abuse." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34: 1067-1075.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXIX. Overt limbic seizures are associated with concurrent and predmidscotophase geomagnetic activity: synchronization by prenocturnal feeding." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81: 83-93.

Desjardins, D. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Association between intermale social agression and cellular density within the central amygdaloid nucleus in rats with lithium/pilocarpine-induced seizures." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81: 249-259.

Desjardins, D. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Strong quantitative associations between biting behavior and cellular density within the central amygdaloid nucleus in male rats with lithium/pilocarpine-induced seizures." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81: 635-641.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Clinical neurological indicators are only moderately correlated with quantitative neuropsychological test scores in patients who display mild-moderate brain impairment following closed-head injuries." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81: 1283-1292.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Sudden unexpected death in epileptics following sudden, intense, increases in geomagnetic activity: prevalence of effect and potential mechanisms." International Journal of Biometeorology, 38: 180-187.

Persinger, M.A. and Richards, P.M. (1995). "Vestibular experiences of humans during brief periods of partial sensory deprivation are enhanced when daily geomagnetic activity exceeds 15-20 nT." Neuroscience Letters, 2: 69-72.

Persinger, M.A. and Richards, P.M. (1995). "Women reconstruct more details than men for a complex five-minute narratvie: implications for right-hemispheric factors in the serial memory effect." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80: 403-410.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Complex partial epileptic-like signs contribute differential sources of variance to low self-esteem and imaginings." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80: 427-431.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "On the possibility of directly accessing every human brain by electromagnetic induction of fundamental algorithms." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80: 791-799.

Bureau, Y.R.J. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Decreased incidence of limbic motor seizures following twenty pairings of subclinical lithium-pilocarpine injections and a putative opiate-releasing magnetic field." Electro- and Magnetobiology, 14: 1-6.

Bureau, Y.R.J. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Decreased latencies for limbic seizures induced in rats by lithium-pilocarpine occur when daily average geomagnetic activity exceeds 20 nano tesla." Neuroscience Letters, 192: 142-144.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Out-of-body-like experiences are more probable in people with elevated complex partial epileptic-like signs during periods of enhanced geomagnetic activity: a nonlinear effect." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80: 563-569.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Foot agility and toe gnosis/graphaesthesia as potential indicators of integrity of the medial cerebral surface: normative data and comparison with clinical populations." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80: 1011-1024.

Bedard, A.W. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Prednisolone blocks extreme intermale social aggression in seizure-induced, brain-damaged rats: implications for the amygdaloid central nucleus, corticotrophin-releasing factor, and electrical seizures." Psychological Reports, 77: 3-9.

Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Neuropsychologica principia brevita: an application to traumatic (acquired) brain injury." Psychological Reports, 77: 707-724.

Carrey, N.J., Butter, H.J., Persinger, M.A. and Bialik, R.J. (1995). "Physiological and cognitive correlates of child abuse." Journal of American Academy of Adoloescent Child Psychiatry, 34: 1067-1075.

Baker, P. and Persinger, M.A. (1995). "Early genital stimulation of rats lowers limbic seizure latencies in females but increases latencies for males." Psychological Reports, 76: 547-552.

Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Sense of a presence and suicidal ideation following traumatic brain injury: indications of right-hemispheric intrusions from neuropsychological profiles." Psychological Reports, 75: 1059-1070.

Persinger, M.A., Bureau, Y.R.J., Peredery, O.P. and Richards, P.M. (1994). "The sensed presence as right hemispheric intrusions into the left hemispheric awareness of self: an illustrative case study." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 78: 999-1009.

Johnson, C.P.L. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "The sensed presence may be facilitated by interhemispheric intercalation: relative efficacy of the mind's eye, hemi-sync tape, and bilateral temporal magnetic field stimulation." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 351-354.

Chellew, G. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Women but not men exhibit a positive corelation between complex partial epileptic-like signs and tactile-visual cross-modal matching: implications for hemispheric intercalation." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 78: 1312-1314.

Fleming, J.L., Persinger, M.A. and Koren, S.A. (1994). "One second per four second magnetic pulses elevate nociceptive threshholds: comparisons with opiate receptor compounds in normal and seizure-induces brain-damaged rats." Electro- and Magnetobiology, 13: 67-75.

Harrigan, T., Bureau, Y.R.J., Persinger, M.A. and Parker, G.H. (1994). "Prevention of sudden cardiac death by the atypical neuroleptic acepromazine following status epilepticus in rats." Life Sciences, 54 (24): 457-462.

Churchill, D.R., Persinger, M.A. and Thomas, A.W. (1994). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXVII. Increased geomagnetic activity and decreased pleasantness of spontaneous narratives for percipients but not agents." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 387-392.

Richards, P. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Foot agility and social anxiety in older children (9-15 years)." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 431-434.

Persinger, M.A. and Richards, P.M. (1994). "Quantitative electroencephalographic validation of left and right temporal lobe signs and indicators in normal people." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 1571-1578.

Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Seizure suggestibility may not be an exclusive differential indicator between psychogenic and partial complex seizures: the presence of a third factor." Seizure, 3: 215-219.

Persinger, M.A. and Richards, P.M. (1994). "Alterations in pleasantness but not activation when long-term memories are reconstructed during contextual versus noncontextual settings." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 95-98.

Tiller, S.G. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Enhanced hypnotizability by cerebrally applied magnetic fields depends upon the order of hemispheric presentation: an anistropic effect." International Journal of Neuroscience, 79: 157-163.

Tiller, S.G. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Elevated incidence of a sensed presence and sexual arousal during partial sensory deprivation and sensitivity to hypnosis: implications for hemisphericity and gender differences." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79: 1527-1531.

Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Maintained hypersexuality between male rats following chronically induced limbic seizures: implications for bisexuality in complex partial epileptic seizures." Psychological Reports, 74: 647-652.

Persinger, M.A., Richards, P.M. and Koren, S.A. (1994). "Differential ratings of pleasantness following right and left hemispheric application of low energy magnetic fields that stimulate long-term potentiation." International Journal of Neuroscience, 79: 191-197.

Persinger, M.A., Bureau, Y.R.J. and Peredery, O. (1994). "Dissociation between conditioned taste aversion and radial maze learning following seizure-induced multifocal brain damage: quantitative tests of serial vs. parallel circuit models of memory." Physiology and Behavior, 56 (2): 225-235.

Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Elicitation of 'childhood memories' in hypnosis-like settings is associated with complex partial epileptic-like signs for women but not for men: implications for the false memory syndrome." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 78: 643-651.

Bureau, Y.R.J., Peredery, O. and Persinger, M.A. (1994). "Concordance of quantitative damage within the diencephalon and telencephalon following systemic pilocarpine (380 mg/kg) or lithium (3 mEq/kg) / pilocarpine (30 mg/kg) inc=duced seizures." Brain Research, 648: 265-269.

Roberts, M.A., Persinger, M.A., Grote, C., Evertowski, L.M., Springer, J.A., Tuten, T., Moulden, D., Franzen, K.M., Roberts, R.J. and Baglio, C.S. (1994). "The dichotic word listening tests: preliminary observations in American and Canadian samples." Applied Neuropsychology, 1: 45-56.

Persinger, M.A., Bureau, Y.R.J., Kostakos, M., Peredery, O. and Falter, H. (1993). "Behaviours of rats with insidious multifocal brain damage induced by seizures following single peripheral injections of lithium and pilocarpine." Physiology and Behaviour, 53: 849-866.

Makarec, K. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Bilingual men but not women display verbal memory weakness but not figural memory differences compared to monolinguals." Personality and Individual Differences, 15: 531-536.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1993). "Complex partial epileptic signs as a continuum from normals to epileptics: normatives data and clinical populations." Journal of Clinical Psychology, 49: 33-45.

Kostakos, M., Persinger, M.A. and Peredary, O. (1993). "Deficits in working but not reference memory in adult rats in which limbic seizures had been induced before weaning: implications for early brain injuries." Neuroscience Letters, 158: 209-212.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1993). "Reinforcement generalization as interaction between processes rather than events: absence of schedule-induced hyperdipsia in rats with histories of minimal food-water contiguity." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77: 751-754.

Dittburner, T.L. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Intensity of amnesia during hypnosis is positively correlated with estimated prevalence of sexual abuse and alien abductions: implications for the false memory syndrome." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77: 895-898.

Persinger, M.A. and Derr, J.S. (1993). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXIV. Man-made fluid injections into the crust and reports of luminous phenomena (UFO Reports) - is the strain field an aseismically propagating hydrological pulse?" Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77: 1059-1065.

Bisson, C. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXV. Possible increased incidence of brain tumors following an episode of luminous phenomena." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77: 1088-1090.

Derr, J.S. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Seasonal hydrological load and regional luminous phenomena (UFO reports) within river systems: the Mississippi Valley test." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77: 1163-1170.

Bureau, Y.R.J. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Extreme hypothermia induced by a synergism of acute limbic seizures, physical restraint, and acepromazine: implications for survival following brain injury." Psychological Reports, 72: 248-250.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Paranormal and religious beliefs may be mediated differentially by subcortical and cortical phenomenological processes of the temporal (Limbic) Lobes." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 247-251.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Average diurnal changes in melatonin levels are associated with hourly incidences of bereavement apparitions: support for the hypothesis of temporal (Limbic) lobe microseizuring." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 444-446.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXI. Differential contribution of geomagnetic activity to paranormal experiences concerning death and crisis; an alternative to the ESP hypothesis." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 555-562.

Derr, J.S. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Hydrological anomolies preceding earthquakes and luminous phemomena." Recent Developments in World Seismology, 9: 26-28. (in Chinese)

Richards, P.M., Persinger, M.A. and Koren, S.A. (1993). "Modification of activation and evaluation properties of narratives by weak complex magnetic field patterns that simulate limbic burst firing." International Journal of Neuroscience, 71: 71-85.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Personality changes following brain injury as a grief response to the loss of sense of self: phenomenological themes as indices of local lability and neurocognitive structuring as psychotherapy." Psychological Reports, 72: 1059-1068.

Skirda, R. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Positive associations between dichotic listening errors, complex partial epileptic-like signs, and paranormal beliefs." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181: 663-667.

Gillis, C. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Shifts in the Plutchik emotion profile indices following three weekly treatments with pulsed vs. continuous cerebral magnetic fields." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 168-170.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Transcendental meditation and general meditation are associated with enhanced complex partial epileptic-like signs: evidence for 'cognitive' kindling?" Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 168-170.

Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Vectorial cerebral hemisphericity as differential sources for the sensed presence, mystical experiences and religious conversations." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76: 915-930.

Persinger, M.A., Balance, S.E. and Moland, M. (1993). "Snow fall and heart attacks." Journal of Psychology, 127 (2): 243-252.

Bureau, Y.R. and Persinger, M.A. (1993). "Transient blocking of persistent gnawing by haloperidol in rats with seizure-induced multifocal brain damage." Life Sciences, 52: 869-876.

Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Neuropsychological profiles of adults who report 'sudden remembering' of early childhood memories: implications for claims of sex abuse and alien visitation/abduction experiences." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 259-266.

Lavallee, M. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Left-ear suppression during dichotic listening, ego alien intrusion experiences and spiritualistic beliefs in normal women." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 547-551.

Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Right hemisphericity, low self-esteem and unusual experiences: a response to Vingiano." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 568-570.

Munro, C. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Relative right temporal lobe theta activity correlates with Vingiano's hemispheric quotient and the 'sensed presence'." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 899-903.

Lazure, C.-L. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Right hemisphericity and low self-esteem in high school students: a replication." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 1058.

Misshagi, B., Richards, P.M. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Severity of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (multiple sclerosis) in rats depends upon the temporal contiguity between limbic seizures and inoculation." Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 43: 1081-1086.

Richards, P. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Toe graphaesthesia as a discriminator of brain impairment: the outstanding feet for neuropsychology." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74: 1027-1030.

Falter, H., Persinger, M.A. and Chretien, R. (1992). "Transient immunosuppression in rats is evoked by lithium-pilocarpine-induced limbic seizures." Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour, 43 (1): 315-317.

Lafrenière, G.F., Peredery, O. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Progressive accumulation of large aggregates of calcium-containing polysaccharides and basophilic debris within specific thalamic nuclei after lithium/pilocarpine-induced seizure." Brain Research Bulletin, 28: 825-830.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1992). "The feeling of a presence and verbal meaningfulness in context of temporal lobe function: factor analytic verification of the muses?" Brain and Cognition, 20: 217-226.

Bureau, Y.R.J. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Geomagnetic activity and enhanced mortality in rats with acute (epileptic) limbic lability." International Journal of Biometeorology, 36: 226-232.

Persinger, M.A. and Falter, H. (1992). "Infantile stimulation produces mild enhancement in a primary response of adult albino rats." Psychological Reports, 70: 976-978.

Derr, J.S. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Luminous phenomena (earthquake lights?) preceding two New Mexico earthquakes." Seismological Research Letters, 63: 22.

Peredery, O., Persinger, M.A., Blomme, C. and Parker, G. (1992). "Absence of maternal behavior in rats with lithium / pilocarpine seizure-induced brain damage: support of MacLean's triune brain theory." Physiology and Behavior, 52: 665-671.

Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Criterion validity for Rotton's paralogic test: beliefs of forbidden knowledge may negatively affect inferential problem solving." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74: 296-298.

Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Enhanced incidence of the 'sensed presence' in people who have to meditate: support for the right hemispheric intrusion hypothesis." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 1308-1310.

Richards, P.M., Koren, S.A. and Persinger, M.A. (1992). "Experimental stimulation by burst-firing weak magnetic fields over the right temporal lobe may facilitate apprehension in women." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75: 667-670.

Persinger, M.A. and Richards, P. (1991). "Tobacyk's Paranormal Belief Scale and temporal lobe signs: sex differences in the experiences of ego-alien intrusions." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73 (3): 1151-1156.

Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Canonical correlation of a temporal lobe signs scale with schizoid and hypomania scales in a normal population: men and women are similar but for different reasons." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73 (2): 615-618.

Berger, R.E. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXVII. Quieter annual geomagnetic activity and larger effect size for experimental PSI (ESP) studies over six decades." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73 (2): 1219-1223.

Richards, P. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Temporal lobe signs, the dissociative experiences scale and the hemispheric quotient." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72 (3): 1139-1142.

Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Preadolescent religious experience enhances temporal lobe signs in normal young adults." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72 (2): 453-454.

Falter, H., Persinger, M.A. and Reid, K. (1991). "Sex differences in primary humoral responses of albino rats to human serum albumin." Immunology Letters, 28: 143-146.

Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Subjective pseudocyesis (false pregnancy) and elevated temporal lobe signs: an implication." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72 (2): 499-503.

von Kirschenheim, C. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Temporal lobe distortions during hypnotic versus relaxation procedures." Journal of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, 39: 63-66.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1991). "Interactions between temporal lobe signs, imaginings, beliefs and gender: their effect upon logical inference." Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 11: 149-166.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1991). "Psychometric differences of men and women by the Personal Philosophy Inventory." Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 12: 1267-1271.

Hodge, K.A. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Quantitative increases in temporal lobe symptoms in human males are proportional to postnatal geomagnetic activity: verification by canonical correlation." Neuroscience Letter, 125: 205-208.

Harrigan, T., Peredery, O. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Radial maze deficits and mediodorsal thalamic damage in context of multifocal seizure-induced brain lesions." Behavioral Neuroscience, 105: 482-486.

Bureau, Y.R.J. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Cholinergic rebound after chlorpromazine treatment exacerbates lithium muscarinic-induced limbic seizures in rats: implications for psychiatric treatment." Psychological Reports, 69: 171-176.

Persinger, M.A., Koren, S.A., Macarec, K., Richards, P. and Youlton, S. (1991). "Differential effects on wave form and the subject's possible temporal lobe signs upon experiences during cerebral exposure to weak intensity magnetic fields." Journal of Bioelectricity, 10: 141-184.

Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Geophysical variables and behavior: LXVI. Geomagnetic storm sudden commencements and commercial aircrashes." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72 (2): 476-478.

Persinger, M.A. and Makarec, K. (1991). Greater hemisphericity is associated with lower self-esteem in adults." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73 (3): 1244-1246.

Reid, K., Falter, M. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Humoral (immunological) responses in female albino rats during rotating magnetic field exposures." International Journal of Biometeorology, 34: 239-241.

Falter, P. and Persinger, M.A. (1991). "Improved arithmetic skills in French-immersion grade-school students are confounded by higher intelligence." Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72 (3): 772-774.


Reports / Rapports

Vincent, M.D., Falter, H., Sebok, K., Persinger, M., Goss, G.D., Rowen, J., Germond, C., Bozek, T., Mazzuchin, A., Corringham, S. and Corringham, R. (1994). LDH isoenzymes in small cell lung cancer. Submitted to: Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation. 76p. (Final Report on Project 85-55).