Extrasensory_perception Extrasensory perception (ESP) involves awareness of information about events external to the self not gained through the senses and not concluded from previous experience. The term was coined by Duke University researcher J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, precognition, Retrocognition, Intuition Psychokinesis. ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct or hunch. The term implies sources of information currently unexplained by science.