Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers help find that hypnosis can induce s...(e while under posthypnotic suggestion as...)

Date:10/23/2008

e while under posthypnotic suggestion as "When I'm walking on the street, the car registration numbers, if those numbers are on the registration, I see them in those colors." Moreover, hypnotized participants failed a catch test which was also failed by real synesthetes: when subjects were hypnotized to experience seven as red (for example) they could not detect the number when a black seven was presented on a red background.

Cohen Kadosh explains: "Our study shows that hypnosis can induce synesthetic experiences in people, suggesting that extra brain connections are not needed to experience cross-sensory interactions and that it is a change in inhibitory processes - more cross talk within the brain - that causes these experiences. This takes us one step closer to understanding the causes of synesthesia and abnormal cross-brain interactions."

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Contact: Andrew Lavin andrewlavin@alavin.com 212-290-9540 American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Source:Eurekalert

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