Abstract Metzinger (1995) is his book, Conscious experience, wrote: ‘Today, the problem of consciousness… marks the very limit of human striving for understanding. It appears to many to be the last great puzzle and the greatest theoretical challenge of our time ‘ (p. 3). Research enumerated in this book suggests that consciousness can be elucidated through the scientific application of...
Abstract This chapter aims to provide an overview of core issues in the development of the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis and conscious states as they emerge in the following chapters. The integration of neurophysiological, behavioural and phenomenological data into broad theoretical frameworks spanning across traditionally discreet levels of analysis is highlighted. Functional connectivity...
Abstract Hypnosis appears to generate unusual—and sometimes even astonishing—changes in the contents of consciousness. Hypnotic subjects report perceiving things that are not there, they report not perceiving things that are there, and they report unusual alterations in the phenomenology of agency. In addition to apparent alterations in the contents of consciousness, hypnosis also appears to...
Abstract Of all the phenomena and claims that have been linked to hypnosis, such as pain control, memory modification or even enhancement of the immune system (Gruzelier et al. 2002a), it may seem strange to focus upon something as obscure as its effect on timing. In fact, among the alleged effects of hypnosis, time distortion seems to have a rather spe- cial characteristic, making it valuable...