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Comments from Assistant Professor of Psychology and Counseling聽Robert Alexander, Ph.D., are featured in a article () discussing whether evolution has granted humans a faint ability to sense Earth鈥檚 magnetic field. Research efforts in South Korea pointed toward some humans able to register information from an Earth-strength magnetic field, but the study鈥檚 senior author said that any magnetic sense appears to operate below the threshold of conscious awareness. A separate study in the United States reported that rotating an Earth-strength magnetic field produced repeatable changes in volunteers鈥� brain activity, though volunteers noted feeling nothing.

鈥淎 subtle change in a decision pattern is not the same thing as demonstrating a sensory system,鈥� Alexander says. 鈥淭his is fascinating and intriguing, but a weak laboratory effect does not mean that humans can use magnetic information in a meaningful way.鈥�