Micro-PK involves an effect on small events such as the output of a random number generator that would produce random outputs in the absence of a micro-PK effect (Cardeña, 2018) and that are only detectable through statistical means (Varvoglis & Bancel, 2015). The specific task in our study was to influence the output of a Random Event Generator (REG) translated into movement of an arrow on a computer screen to the right or left.

In support of our neurobiological model of psi inhibition by the frontal lobes, we reported significant mind-matter interactions in two individuals with frontal brain lesions (Freedman et al., 2003, 2018). One had a tension pneumocephalus and the other had behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia associated with a mutation in the C9ORF72 gene. The primary area of lesion overlap in the two participants was in the left medial middle frontal region involving Brodmann areas 9, 10, and 32. The experimental task was to influence output of a Random Event Generator translated into movement of an arrow on a computer screen to the right or left. Compared to a well-designed control condition, both individuals demonstrated a significant effect in moving the arrow on the screen contralateral to the side of their primary lesion overlap, i.e., to the right.

To address this phenomenon, Dr. Morris Freedman's team, supported by the BIAL Foundation, has developed a novel neurobiological model based upon the concept that the brain may act as a psi-inhibitory filter. In other words, humans may have innate psi abilities that are suppressed by this frontal lobe filter.

To test this hypothesis, he and his colleagues, Dr. Malcolm Binns, Dr. Jed Meltzer, Rohila Hashimi, and Dr. Robert Chen used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to induce reversible brain lesions in the left medial middle frontal region in healthy participants.

In an article that was published online ahead of print in the scientific journal Cortex, called Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition, Dr. Freedman and the researchers found a significant psi effect following rTMS inhibition of the left medial middle frontal lobe.

Healthy participants with reversible rTMS induced lesions affecting the left medial middle frontal region of the brain showed larger effects on a mind-matter interaction task compared to healthy participants without rTMS induced lesions.

These findings support the concept that the brain serves as a filter to block psi effects and may help explain why these effects are so small and hard to replicate in healthy participants.

“This study confirmed our hypothesis”, says Dr. Freedman, head of the Division of Neurology at Baycrest, adding that “individuals with neurological or reversible rTMS induced frontal lesions may represent a useful group for detection and replication of this phenomenon”.

For Dr. Freedman, these findings “are potentially transformative for the way we view interactions between the brain and seemingly random events” and may “significantly advance research in the area of psi, helping to bring this phenomenon into the realm of mainstream science”.

A (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945223002733) highly controversial new experiment claims to have proven psychic ability, and posits that psi abilities are innate, but suppressed by the left medial middle frontal region of the human brain, and brain stimulation (or impairment of that part of the brain) can circumvent the block.

"Psi is a controversial phenomenon that includes telepathy (mind-mind connections), clairvoyance (perceiving distant objects or events), precognition (perceiving future events), and mind-matter interactions (psychokinesis)."