Hypnotic and non-hypnotic suggestion to ignore pre-cues decreases space-valence congruency effects in highly hypnotizable individuals

Zhang, Ya; Yan, Wang; Ku, Yixuan

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2018.09.009

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“…Hypnotizability, an individual trait substantially stable throughout life [1], is associated with the proneness to experience hypnosis and/or alteration of perception, memory and behavior following the administration of specific suggestions [2]. The observation that suggestions are effective in both the ordinary state of consciousness and after hypnotic induction [3][4][5][6][7][8] has highlighted the role the trait of hypnotizability has, together with other individual traits and with contextual factors, in hypnotic behavior. Hypnotizability, in fact, also predicts the response to suggestions, as placebo and hypnotizability-related mechanisms can cooperate, for instance, in the cognitive control of pain [9].…”

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Physiological Correlates of Hypnotizability: Hypnotic Behaviour and Prognostic Role in Medicine

Malloggi,

Santarcangelo

2023

Brain Sciences

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Studies in the field of experimental hypnosis highlighted the role of hypnotizability in the physiological variability of the general population. It is associated, in fact, with a few differences which are observable in the ordinary state of consciousness and in the absence of suggestions. The aim of the present scoping review is summarizing them and indicate their relevance to the neural mechanisms of hypnosis and to the prognosis and treatment of a few medical conditions. Individuals with high, medium and low hypnotizability scores display different cerebral functional differences—i.e., functional equivalence between imagery and perception/action, excitability of the motor cortex, interoceptive accuracy—possibly related to brain structural and functional characteristics, and different control of blood supply at peripheral and cerebral level, likely due to different availability of endothelial nitric oxide. These differences are reviewed to support the idea of their participation in hypnotic behaviour and to indicate their prognostic and therapeutic usefulness in a few medical conditions.

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