Lack of correlation between hypnotic susceptibility and various components of attention

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1872-1881

  Varga, Katalin ^a   Németh, Zoltán ^a   Szekely, Anna ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Attention; Context effect; Hypnosis; Hypnotic susceptibility; Simon task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DIVIDED ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE ATTENTION; FEMALE; FOCUSED ATTENTION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; WAKEFULNESS;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054868303     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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