PubMed · 3430146
Visual information processing speed in hypnotized and nonhypnotized subjects.
Abstract
Using a backward-masking paradigm with a bias-free and ceiling-free psychophysical task, we tested hypnotized and control subjects for speed of visual information processing. Approximately half of each group received visual imagery suggestions in an attempt to influence attention. Imagery produced no significant differential effect. Although an absence of a hypnotizability-performance relationship was in keeping with findings of a previous study, those subjects in the present study who performed under hypnosis were, as a group, significantly superior to the other subjects in speed of information processing.
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H Friedman, H A Taub, J F Sturr, R A Monty. 1987. Visual information processing speed in hypnotized and nonhypnotized subjects.. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1987.9711074
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