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Preliminary instruction of the subject plays an important role in the perception of weak electromagnetic fields acting on the hand. Active attention to a potential effect amplifies a brain state that can be called caution dominance and arises spontaneously with a “placebo” or an electromagnetic field. The radar principle of brain operation is discussed among the physiological mechanisms through which electromagnetic fields act on an organism.
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 85–92, January, 1994.
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Kholodov, Y.A. A. A. Ukhtomskii's dominance principle of brain activity in the perception of electromagnetic fields. Radiophys Quantum Electron 37, 48–52 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01039301
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