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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Semantic word processing is crucial for language comprehension.
  • Hypnosis can modulate cognitive functions, including perception and attention.
  • Understanding how hypnotic suggestions impact neural mechanisms of word processing is key.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural mechanisms of semantic word processing modulation by hypnotic suggestions.
  • To examine the effect of hypnotic suggestions on neural priming in a lexical decision task.
  • To determine if suggestibility influences the neural effects of hypnotic suggestions on semantic processing.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used during a primed visual lexical decision task.
  • Participants performed the task under normal wakefulness and after hypnotic suggestions.
  • Hypnotic suggestions aimed to alter the perception of prime words as foreign symbols.

Main Results:

  • Significant reductions in neural priming were observed following hypnotic suggestions.
  • Neural priming was attenuated in brain regions involved in both automatic (fusiform gyrus) and controlled semantic processing (temporal and frontal areas).
  • These effects were independent of individual differences in suggestibility.

Conclusions:

  • Hypnotic suggestions can effectively dampen semantic word processing.
  • Both automatic and strategic semantic processes are concurrently affected by hypnotic suggestions.
  • This highlights the malleability of neural mechanisms underlying word recognition through hypnotic induction.