Experimental Brain Research
February 17, 2026
Eleonora Malloggi, Enrica L Santarcangelo, Ursula Debarnot
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...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
2026
Eleonora Malloggi, Enrica L Santarcangelo
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...
Brain Science
November 24, 2023
Eleonora Malloggi, Enrica L Santarcangelo
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...
Brain Sciences
May 29, 2023
Alejandro Luis Callara, Žan Zelič, Lorenzo Fontanelli et al.
7 citations
The relevance of formal hypnotic induction to the experience of trance and its neural correlates is not clear, in that hypnotizability, beliefs and expectation of hypnosis may play a major role. The aim of the study was assessing the EEG brain activity of participants with high (highs) or low hypnotizability scores (lows), aware of their hypnotizability level and informed that the session will...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
April 12, 2017
Mark P Jensen, Graham Jamieson, Antoine Lutz et al.
This article summarizes key advances in hypnosis research during the past two decades, including (i) clinical research supporting the efficacy of hypnosis for managing a number of clinical symptoms and conditions, (ii) research supporting the role of various divisions in the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortices in hypnotic responding, and (iii) an emerging finding that high hypnotic...
Scientific Reports
July 8, 2014
Riccardo Chiarucci, Dario Madeo, Maria I Loffredo et al.
Assessment of hypnotic susceptibility is usually obtained through the application of psychological instruments. A satisfying classification obtained through quantitative measures is still missing, although it would be very useful for both diagnostic and clinical purposes. Aiming at investigating the relationship between the cortical brain activity and the hypnotic susceptibility level, we...
Brain and Cognition
November 2013
Dario Madeo, Eleonora Castellani, Enrica L Santarcangelo et al.
The cerebral cortical correlates of the susceptibility to hypnosis in the ordinary states of consciousness have not been clarified. Aim of the study was to characterize the EEG dynamics of subjects with high (highs) and low hypnotisability (lows) through the non-linear method of Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA). The EEG of 16 males--8 highs and 8 lows--was monitored for 1min without...