Hernán Anlló

Can hypnosis displace the threshold for visual consciousness?

Neuroscience of Consciousness 2018 Hernán Anlló, Jérôme Sackur

To test the specific effects of hypnosis on the attentional components of visual awareness, we developed a posthypnotic suggestion for peripheral visual inattention inspired on the "tunnel vision" symptom of the Balint Syndrome. We constructed a dual-target visibility and discrimination paradigm, in which single-digit numerical targets were placed both on the hypnotically affected peripheral...