Doing better by getting worse: Posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Terhune, Devin Blair ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTHYPNOTIC AMNESIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECOGNITION; SELF REPORT; STEREOTYPY; WORKING MEMORY; HYPNOSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455168945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029206     Document Type: Article

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