retrocognition
n. in parapsychology, the experiencing of a past event as if it were occurring in the present, or knowledge of a past event that includes details that could not be learned, inferred, or verified through normal means. In a test of retrocognition, the participant might be asked to guess the outcome of an earlier set of trials involving Zener cards or similar stimulus materials. Also called postcognition. See also backward displacement. Compare precognition. [coined by English poet and philologist Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901)]