Abnormal Ways

Complete Bibliography for all things regarding Derma-optical Perception (DOP), Eyeless Sight, and Paroptic Vision

A compilation with no rhyme or reason. Use ctrl + F if you can’t see the text.

Gol’dberg, I. M. “On Whether Tactile Sensitivity Can Be Improved by Exercise.” Soviet Psychology and Psychiatry 2, no. 1 (1963).

Duplessis, Yvonne, and A. S. Novomeysky. “Investigation of Dermal-Optic Sensitivity by Physical Methods.” Lnt. J Paraphysics 17.1-2 (1981): 3-10.

Youtz, R. P. “Aphotic digital color sensing.” American Psychologist 19 (1964): 734.

Ivanov, A. (1964). Soviet experiments in ‘eye-less vision’. International Journal of Parapsychology 6/1, 1-23. (without light)

Recker, Heywood Eric, and Richard A. Cone. “Light-stimulated electrical responses from skin.” Science 154.3752 (1966): 1051-1053.

Kaiser, Peter K. “Nonvisual color perception: A critical review.” Color Research & Application 8.3 (1983): 137-144.

Makous, W. L. “Cutaneous color sensitivity: Explanation and demonstration.” Psychological Review 73.4 (1966): 280

Nash, CARROLL B. “Cutaneous perception of color with a head box.” Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 65 (1971): 83-87.

Jacobson, J. Zachary, B. J. Frost, and W. L. King. “A case of dermooptical perception.” Perceptual and Motor Skills 22.2 (1966): 515-520.

Albert Rosenfeld 1964 Life article

S. G. Fajnberg (Ninel’s discoverer), A. T. Alexandrov, rector of the University of Leningrad, and Leonid Vasiliev, whose laboratory at the University is the center of parapsychology research in Russia

1898 A. N. Khovrin, a Russian psychiatrist, published a paper on “A rare form of hyperaesthesia of the higher sense organs” (8), in which he described the DOP feats of a Russian woman named Sophia

Richard P. Youtz, of the psychology department at Barnard College, was discussing the Soviet DOP work at a faculty lunch one day

science writer Robert K. Plumb, appeared in the New York Times, 8 January 1964 (15). Mrs. Stanley did not read print, but she seemed able to identify the colors of test cards and pieces of cloth by rubbing them with her fingers

Leonard Wallace Robinson’s article “We have more than five senses” in the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, 15 March.

L. Teplov, author of a well-known book on cybernetics, e 1-7 March 1964 issue of Nedelya, and in the 25 May issue of the Moscow Literaturnaya Gazeta. Rosa’s nose peeking

J. E. Robert-Houdin, Confidences d’un Prestidigitateur (Blois, 1858), chap. 5; English translation, Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (London, 1859); reprinted as Memoirs of RobertHoudin: King of the Conjurers (Dover, New York, 1964). 

USSR 89, 32 (1964). 

For English translation, see I. Goldberg, Soviet Psychol. Psychiat. 2, 19 (1963). 

For English translation, see N. D. Nyuberg, Federation Proc. 22, T701 (1964). 

A. Rosenfeld, “Seeing color with the fingers,” Life 1964, 102-13 (12 June 19,64). 

“Pat Marquis of California can see without his eyes,” Life 1937, 57-59 (19 Apr. 1937).

J. B. Rhine, Parapsychol. Bull. 66, 2-4 (Aug. 1963).

A. N. Khovrin, in Contributions to Neuropsychic Medicine (Moscow, 1898).

J. Romains, Vision Extra-Retinienne (Paris, 1919); English translation, Eyeless Vision, C. K. Ogden, transl. (Putnam, New York, 1924).

J. Davy, Observer, 2 Feb. 1964.

See H. Tarbell, “X-ray eyes and blindfold effects” in The Tarbell Course in Magic (Tannen, New York, 1954), vol. 6, pp. 251- 261. Tarbell speaks of his own work in this field as a direct result of his interest in Romains’ work, and briefly describes an eyeless vision act by a woman who performed under the stage name of Shireen in the early 1920’s.

See M. Gardner, Sphinx 12, 334-337 (Feb. 1949); Linking Ring 34, 23-25 (Oct. 1964); also, G. Groth, “He writes with your hand,” in Fate 5, 39-43 (Oct. 1952).

A description of an early eyeless vision act by Kuda Bux will be found in H. Price; Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter (Putnam, New York, 1936), chap. 19.

P. Saltzman, Fate 17, 38-48 (May 1964).

R. K. Plumb, “Woman who tells color by touch mystifies psychologist,” in New York Times, 8 Jan. 1964; see also Plumb’s followup article, “6th Sense is hinted in ability to ‘see’ with fingers,” ibid., 26 Jan. 1964. The Times also published an editorial, “Can fingers ‘see’?” 6 Feb. 1964.

R. P. Youtz, “Aphotic Digital Color Sensing; A Case under Study,” photocopied for the Bryn Mawr meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 29 Aug. 1963.

“Housewife is unable to repeat color ‘readings’ with fingers,” New York Times, 2 Feb. 1964.

For an exchange of published letters, see M. Gardner, New York Times Magazine, 5 Apr. 1964, and R. P. Youtz, ibid., 26 Apr. 1964. 19. R. P. Youtz, “The Case for Skin Sensitivity to Color; with a Testable Explanatory Hypothesis,” photocopied for the Psychonomic Society, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 9 Oct. 1964.

R. P. Youtz, letter, Sci. Amer. 212, 8-10 (June 1965).

B. Lebedev, Leningradskaya Pravda, 15 Mar. 1964; translated for me by Albert Parry, department of Russian studies, Colgate University.

J. Zubin, Science 147, 985 (1965).

Adamenko, V. G. (1972). Controlled movements of objects. Journal of Paraphysics 6, 180-226.

Boldyreva, L.B. (2007). Is long-distance psychokinesis possible in outer space? Paper presented at the 50th annual convention of the Parapsychological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2-5 August.

Braude, S.E. (1993). The fear of psi revisited, or, it’s the thought that countsASPR Newsletter 18/1, 8-11.

Chijov, V. (1968). Wonder in a sieve. Moskovskaya Pravda (4 June).Trans. S. Medhurst in Journal of Paraphysics 1968/2, 109-11.

Conrad, J. (2016). The Ninel Kulagina Telekinesis Case: Rebuttals to Skeptical Arguments. [Web page.]

Dash, M. (1997). Borderlands. Portsmouth, NH, USA:  William Heinemann.

Ehrenwald, J. (1976). Parapsychology and the seven dragons: A neuropsychiatric model of psi phenomena. In Parapsychology: Its Relation to Physics, Biology, Psychology, and Psychiatry, ed. by G.R. Schmeidler, 245-63. Metuchen, New Jersey, USA: Scarecrow Press.

Gardner, M. (1983). Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. Oxford: OUP.

Gardner, M. (1992). On the Wild Side. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.

Herbert, B. (1973). Spring in Leningrad: Kulagina revisited. Parapsychology Review 4, 5-10.

Keil, H.H.J., & Fahler, J. (1976). Nina S. Kulagina: A strong case for PK involving directly observable movements of objects. European Journal of Parapsychology 7/2, 36-44.

Keil, H.H.J., Herbert, B., Ullman, M., & Pratt, J.G. (1976). Directly observable voluntary PK effects: A survey and tentative interpretation of available findings from Nina Kulagina and other known related cases of recent date. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 56, 197-235.

Kolodny, L. (1968). When apples fall. Moskovskaya Pravda (17 March). Trans. S. Medhurst in Journal of Paraphysics 1968/2, 105-8.

Kravitz, J., & Hillabrant, W. (1977). The Future is Now: Readings in Introductory Psychology. Chicago: F. E. Peacock Publishers.

Kulagin, V. V. (1971). Nina S. Kulagina. Journal of Paraphysics 5, 54-62.

Kulagin, V. (1991). The ‘K’ phenomenon: The phenomenon of Ninel Kulagina (no page numbers). In The Phenomenon of ‘D’ and Others, ed. by L.E. Kolodny, 107-221. Moscow: Politizdat. [Trans. Google Translate and KM Wehrstein.]

Levy, J. (2002). K.I.S.S. Guide to the Unexplained. London: DK Publishing.

Ostrander, S., & Shroeder, L. (1970). Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. Hoboken, NJ: Prentice Hall. 

Rejdak, Z. (1968). Telekinesis or fraud? Journal of Paraphysics 2, 68-70.

Rejdak, Z. (1969). The Kulagina cine films: Introductory notes. Journal of Paraphysics 3.

Stein, G. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Amherst, New York, USA: Prometheus Books.

Ullman, M. (1974). PK in the Soviet Union. In Research in Parapsychology 1973, ed by R.L. Morris & J.D. Morris, 121-25. Metuchen, New Jersey, USA: Scarecrow Press.

Brewer, F.A. 1966. Samuel Johnson on dermo-optical perception. Science 152: 592.

Brugger, Peter and Peter H. Weiss. 2008. “Dermo-Optical Perception: The Non-Synesthetic “Palpability of Colors” A Comment on Larner (2006).” Journal of    the History of the Neurosciences 17:253–255.

Chaney, Earlyne. 1987. The Eyes Have It: A Self-Help Manual for Better Vision. Boston: Red Wheel/Weiser.

Cotzin, Milton. “The Perception of Obstacles by the Blind.” In Empirical Foundations of Psychology, edited by N.H. Pronko and J.W. Bowles. New York: Routledge.

Gardiner, Martin. 1966. “Dermo-optical Perception: A Peek Down the Nose.” Science  151: 654–657.

Larner A.J. 2006. “A possible account of synaesthesia dating from the seventeenth   century.” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 15: 245–249.

Romains, Jules. 1920. La vision extra-rétinienne et le sens paroptique. Paris: Gallimard.

Romains, Jules. 1964. “La Situation de meconnu.” Les Nouvelles litteraires (23  janvier 1964): pp.

Shiah, Yung-Jong and Wai-Cheong Carl Tam. 2005. “Do Human Fingers “See”? — “Finger-Reading” Studies in the East and West.” European Journal of  Parapsychology 20(2): 117-134.

Virtanen, Reino. 1986. “Claude Bernard’s Prophecies and the Historical Relation of   Science to Literature” Journal of the History of Ideas 47(2): 275-286.

Youtz, Richard P. “Response: Dermo-optical Perception.” Science 152.3725 (1966): 1108-1108.