Breath-holding is employed to enhance performance in sports such as diving, due to its specific physiological correlates. Its duration can be enhanced through training and specific cognitive strategies, and can be influenced by individual traits. Since hypnotizability has been linked to interoceptive sensibility and imagery abilities—both influencing breath-holding—we aimed to assess its...
High hypnotizability predicts greater similarity between the cortical correlates of actual and imagined action (functional equivalence, FE). The study investigated whether motor imagery (MI) training (MIT) improves subjective experience, chronometric indices, and the EEG correlates of MI (like physical training), and whether absorption, imagery abilities, and interoceptive sensibility influence...
Studies in the field of experimental hypnosis highlighted the role of hypnotizability in the physiological variability of the general population. It is associated, in fact, with a few differences which are observable in the ordinary state of consciousness and in the absence of suggestions. The aim of the present scoping review is summarizing them and indicate their relevance to the neural...