• DOI:10.1176/APPI.AJP.157.8.1279
Corpus ID: 18060042

Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain.

@article{Kosslyn2000HypnoticVI,
  title={Hypnotic visual illusion alters color processing in the brain.},
  author={S. Kosslyn and W. L. Thompson and M. Costantini-Ferrando and N. Alpert and D. Spiegel},
  journal={The American journal of psychiatry},
  year={2000},
  volume={157 8},
  pages={
          1279-84
        }
}

S. Kosslyn, W. L. Thompson, +2 authors D. Spiegel

Published 2000

Psychology, Medicine

The American journal of psychiatry

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… CONTINUE READING

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