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Research Research Questions
The Sarah Estep Research Fund (SERF) was established to conduct a coordinated approach to targeted research that promotes a culture of cooperation and collaboration. By “targeted,” we mean research projects that are directed at specific questions that, when taken as a collective, help clarify the nature of these phenomena.
A SERF project begins with a research proposal that demonstrates the applicant’s understanding of “good science,” the ability of the applicant to perform good science, and most important, a research question that will clearly advance this field of study. This page contains a list of proposed research questions.
Audio Analysis
Question: Are EVP energy limited? It is thought that short utterances are louder than long ones, and that very long messages are formed by combining short ones with brief pauses. The average energy in each segment is thought to be about the same. Is this true?
Question: Does the frequency and power spectrum of EVP depend the frequency and power spectrum of supplied noise? Research has indicated that EVP are a “thickening” of available background noise. Is this true?
Question: Are EVP formed in a single component such as a transistor, or across a circuit, such as an amplifier? If so, which component? With multiple recording processes, an utterance has been shown to occur in only one.
Question: What is the source of energy for EVP? As is shown in the above waveform, the normal amplitude of background noise is much lower than where EVP are formed, yet EVP are thought to be formed out of the background noise. Logically, energy must be added or saved in some way and then burst.
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