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Cortex

Volume 45, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 137-140
Cortex

Special section: Editorial
Out of the body, but not out of mind

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Acknowledgments

We thank the COGITO foundation for supporting our attempts, originally initiated by Erich Menninger-Lerchenthal, to bridge the gaps between neuropsychology and parapsychology of anomalous experiences.

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