Attention control and susceptibility to hypnosis

作者：Iani Cristina^*; Ricci Federico; Baroni Giulia; Rubichi Sandro

来源：Consciousness and Cognition, 2009, 18(4): 856-863.

DOI：10.1016/j.concog.2009.07.002

• Attention control
• Hypnosis
• Susceptibility
• Interference

The present work aimed at assessing whether the interference exerted by task-irrelevant spatial information is comparable in high- and low-susceptible individuals and whether it may be eliminated by means of a specific posthypnotic suggestion. To this purpose high- and low-susceptible participants were tested using a Simon-like interference task after the administration of a suggestion aimed at preventing the processing of the irrelevant spatial information conveyed by the stimuli. The suggestion could be administered either in the absence or following a standard hypnotic induction. We showed that, outside from the hypnotic context, the Simon effect was similar in high and low-susceptible participants and it was significantly reduced following the posthypnotic suggestion in high-susceptible participants only. These results show that a specific posthypnotic suggestion can alter information processing in high-susceptible individuals and reduce the interfering effect exerted by arrow stimuli.

• 出版日期2009-12