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An Evolutionary Perspective of the Sixth Sense

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Innovative research has recently suggested if our sixth sense does not work well, it does not matter. Sensory substitution technology provides us with a lot of useful information from the real world; thus the sixth sense would be able to work more smoothly and efficiently. Here this matter has been argued.

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  1. Molecular Immunology Research Center, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Amene Saghazadeh

  2. MetaCognition Interest Group (MCIG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

    Amene Saghazadeh

  3. Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Nima Rezaei

  4. Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Nima Rezaei

  5. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

    Nima Rezaei

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    Nima Rezaei

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    Amene Saghazadeh

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Saghazadeh, A., Rezaei, N. (2019). An Evolutionary Perspective of the Sixth Sense. In: Rezaei, N., Saghazadeh, A. (eds) Biophysics and Neurophysiology of the Sixth Sense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10620-1_18

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