Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis
Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi, Jessica Utts · 2012 · Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 390
Summary
Meta-analysis of 26 presentiment / anomalous-anticipation studies reporting a small but statistically reliable physiological response (e.g. skin conductance, heart rate) preceding randomly presented arousing stimuli by several seconds.
Why it matters here
The most-cited modern meta-analysis on presentiment; central to debate about whether physiology can show anticipatory responses to future stimuli.
Linked claims
Given how many dreams we have, occasional 'matches' are statistically inevitable and powerfully memorable.
Most 'intuition' is unconscious inference. A small subset of presentiment studies suggests something else may also be in play.
The reported experience of knowing, sensing, dreaming, or picturing a future event before it happens — sometimes called premonition, presentiment, future sensing, or anomalous anticipation. Real as a common human report; controversial as evidence the future is being directly perceived.