anomalous cognition
Extrasensory information acquisition
Anomalous cognition is a parapsychology term for gaining information through means unexplained by known sensory channels—what might otherwise be called extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, or remote viewing.
The clinical-sounding name emerged from government-funded research programs: The study measured anomalous cognition under controlled laboratory conditions.
The term implies scientific neutrality without endorsing the phenomenon's reality.
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- remote viewingAlleged psychic distance perception
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- psychometrySensing history through touch
future sight · gnosis · clairvoyance · mind's eye · Zener cards · hunch · parapsychology · mediumship · cold reading · spoon bending · presentiment · tacit knowledge · aura reading · pattern recognition · knowing · astral projection · out of body · instinct
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, precognition, extrasensory
- parapsychologyESP, ghosts, psi, mediums, telepathy
anomalous cognitionsensory perception
Detecting stimuli through senses
empirical observation · sense perception · five senses · sensory experience · direct observation