Master’s student plans to prove psychics are real

A student pursing her master’s degree in pschology is on a mission to prove psychic activity exits, reports The Sudbury Star.

Mandy Scott, a student at Laurentian University, says she plans, among other things, to measure changes in brain activity during supposed psychic episodes.

"Psychic functioning is the ability to perceive and describe targets, which could be people, places, events, situations, anything that’s hidden from you at a distance of space in time," Scott explained to the newspaper.

Although she is sometimes criticized for her choice of study, she asserts that, "psychic function is real and we need help in pinpointing how it works."

The study will include three groups. One will be the control. A second will be taught psychic techniques. The third will consist of "experienced psychics." Each group will be asked to describe a photo inside an envelope. The question is, will the psychic groups do better? Each participant will also be given six EEG scans to look for changes in brain wave activity.