Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain.
@article{Kosslyn2000HypnoticVI, title={Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain.}, author={Stephen M. Kosslyn and William L. Thompson and Maria Costantini-Ferrando and Nathaniel M. Alpert and David Spiegel}, journal={The American journal of psychiatry}, year={2000}, volume={157 8}, pages={ 1279-84 } }
OBJECTIVE
This study was designed to determine whether hypnosis can modulate color perception. Such evidence would provide insight into the nature of hypnosis and its underlying mechanisms.
METHOD
Eight highly hypnotizable subjects were asked to see a color pattern in color, a similar gray-scale pattern in color, the color pattern as gray scale, and the gray-scale pattern as gray scale during positron emission tomography scanning by means of [(15)O]CO(2). The classic color area in the…
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