The final task the remaining three contestants, Amanda Hart, Diane Lazarus and Austin Charles was obliged to try to resolve was the unsolved murder of Joanna Young in 1992. Diane Lazarus was named as the winner of the competition.
The Channel 5 UK call for your participation: Do you think you're psychic? If so, you're not alone. An estimated 150,000 people in the UK claim to have psychic powers, and as many of us believe in parapsychology as we do in God. Of course, the skeptics rubbish all claim to psychic ability. But what can people who claim to be psychic actually do? Could there be rational scientific explanations for some of the things they claim to be able to achieve, or is it just a matter of luck, trickery and the need to believe? Five is going to find out once and for all by putting some of these so-called psychics to the test.
The German psychiatrist Hans Berger originally invented the electroencephalograph (EEG) in 1929 as a tool to study whether telepathy might be explained by brain waves.
While some scientists discount the existence of a sixth sense for danger, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has identified a brain region. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a brain area located near the top of the frontal lobes and along the walls that divide the left and right hemispheres. "For a long time we've been interested in how the brain figures out how to integrate cognitive information about the world with our emotions [and] how we feel about something," explains Joshua Brown Ph.D., a research associate in psychology in arts and sciences. "For many reasons," Brown continues, "people think the ACC might be the brain structure responsible for converging these different signals. It seems to be an area that's involved in deciding what information gets prioritised in the decision-making process. It seems able to link motivational and affect information - things like goodness or badness - and to use this information to bring about changes in cognition; to alter how we think about things. It appears that this area of the brain is somehow figuring out things without you necessarily having to be consciously aware of it."