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Chapter 17 - Consciousness in hypnosis

from Part I - The cognitive science of consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
John F. Kihlstrom
Edited by
Philip David Zelazo ,
Morris Moscovitch  and
Evan Thompson
Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Morris Moscovitch
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Evan Thompson
Affiliation:
University of York
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Summary

Hypnosis is a process in which one person responds to the suggestions given by another for imaginative experiences involving alterations in perception, memory, and the voluntary control of action. This chapter reviews a number of phenomena, including posthypnotic amnesia; hypnotic analgesia; hypnotic deafness, blindness, and agnosia; and emotional numbing, with an eye toward uncovering dissociations between explicit and implicit memory, perception, and emotion. In addition to total or tubular blindness, hypnotic subjects can also be given suggestions for color blindness. Hypnotic suggestions of a different sort may indeed abolish Stroop interference. There is much about hypnosis that appears to be automatic. The controversy over the very nature of hypnosis has often led the investigators to seek evidence of neural and other biological changes to demonstrate that hypnosis is real or, alternatively, to debunk the phenomenon as illusion and fakery.

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cognitioncomputational modelsconsciousnesspsychological datamechanistic processesphilosophical theories
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The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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