Suggesting adds an edge to automaticity: measuring, elucidating, and understanding positive hypnotic hallucinations
A visual variation of the abstract is available in an interactive video format at razlab.mcgill.ca/thesis_aubertbonn.html.Once automatized, cognitive processes seldom return to the purview of control; when they do, however, this reversal happens with much difficulty. Inspired by recent evidence int...
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ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-QMM.1171262014-02-13T04:11:25ZSuggesting adds an edge to automaticity: measuring, elucidating, and understanding positive hypnotic hallucinationsAubert Bonn, NoémiePsychology - PsychometricsA visual variation of the abstract is available in an interactive video format at razlab.mcgill.ca/thesis_aubertbonn.html.Once automatized, cognitive processes seldom return to the purview of control; when they do, however, this reversal happens with much difficulty. Inspired by recent evidence introducing the role of suggestion in de-automatization, the present thesis elucidates how hypnotic suggestion renders a difficult task more automatic without extensive practice. Using MoTraK, a task inspired by a documented visual illusion, we investigated whether a specific hypnotic suggestion to view non-existent visual cues would increase performance. Our results show that highly suggestible individuals (i.e., participants who are likely to respond to hypnotic suggestion), but not controls, improved their accuracy after receiving the suggestion. We discuss how these findings, beyond theoretical accounts of hypnosis and visual perception, hold potential clinical implications. In this regard, MoTraK may serve as a stepping stone in investigations concerning the regulation of mind and body through placebo responses/effects and top–down modulation.Une vidéo interactive complémentaire à ce résumé est disponible sur le site Internet razlab.mcgill.ca/thesis_aubertbonn.html. Une fois automatisés, certains processus cognitifs retournent très difficilement au contrôle conscient. S'inspirant d'une branche de la recherche selon laquelle la suggestion peut faciliter la dé-automatisation de certains processus cognitifs, la présente thèse cherche à comprendre le rôle des suggestions hypnotiques dans l'automatisation des processus cognitifs difficiles. Nous avons utilisé MoTraK, une tâche basée sur une illusion visuelle documentée en recherche sur la perception, afin de déterminer si une suggestion hypnotique spécifique peut suffire à améliorer la performance sur cette tâche difficile. Nos résultats montrent que les individus hautement susceptibles aux suggestions ont, au contraire des individus non ou peu susceptibles, augmenté la justesse de leurs réponses après avoir reçu la suggestion. Nous établissons que les implications de nos résultats vont au-delà de la croissance des connaissances théoriques concernant l'hypnose et la perception visuelle et détiennent une valeur médicale et de potentielles applications cliniques. Suivant cet ordre d'idées, MoTraK peut servir d'outil pionnier dans l'exploration des interactions corps–esprit telles que l'effet placebo et les régulations descendantes (top–down).McGill UniversityAmir Raz (Internal/Supervisor)2013Electronic Thesis or Dissertationapplication/pdfenElectronically-submitted theses.All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry) http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117126 |
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A visual variation of the abstract is available in an interactive video format at razlab.mcgill.ca/thesis_aubertbonn.html.Once automatized, cognitive processes seldom return to the purview of control; when they do, however, this reversal happens with much difficulty. Inspired by recent evidence introducing the role of suggestion in de-automatization, the present thesis elucidates how hypnotic suggestion renders a difficult task more automatic without extensive practice. Using MoTraK, a task inspired by a documented visual illusion, we investigated whether a specific hypnotic suggestion to view non-existent visual cues would increase performance. Our results show that highly suggestible individuals (i.e., participants who are likely to respond to hypnotic suggestion), but not controls, improved their accuracy after receiving the suggestion. We discuss how these findings, beyond theoretical accounts of hypnosis and visual perception, hold potential clinical implications. In this regard, MoTraK may serve as a stepping stone in investigations concerning the regulation of mind and body through placebo responses/effects and top–down modulation. === Une vidéo interactive complémentaire à ce résumé est disponible sur le site Internet razlab.mcgill.ca/thesis_aubertbonn.html. Une fois automatisés, certains processus cognitifs retournent très difficilement au contrôle conscient. S'inspirant d'une branche de la recherche selon laquelle la suggestion peut faciliter la dé-automatisation de certains processus cognitifs, la présente thèse cherche à comprendre le rôle des suggestions hypnotiques dans l'automatisation des processus cognitifs difficiles. Nous avons utilisé MoTraK, une tâche basée sur une illusion visuelle documentée en recherche sur la perception, afin de déterminer si une suggestion hypnotique spécifique peut suffire à améliorer la performance sur cette tâche difficile. Nos résultats montrent que les individus hautement susceptibles aux suggestions ont, au contraire des individus non ou peu susceptibles, augmenté la justesse de leurs réponses après avoir reçu la suggestion. Nous établissons que les implications de nos résultats vont au-delà de la croissance des connaissances théoriques concernant l'hypnose et la perception visuelle et détiennent une valeur médicale et de potentielles applications cliniques. Suivant cet ordre d'idées, MoTraK peut servir d'outil pionnier dans l'exploration des interactions corps–esprit telles que l'effet placebo et les régulations descendantes (top–down). |
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Suggesting adds an edge to automaticity: measuring, elucidating, and understanding positive hypnotic hallucinations |
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