Boosting human learning by hypnosis

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 801-805

  Nemeth, Dezso ^a   Janacsek, Karolina ^a   Polner, Bertalan ^a   Kovacs, Zoltan Ambrus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

functional connectivity; hypnosis; memory systems; prefrontal cortex; sequence learning; striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALTERNATING SERIAL REACTION TIME; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEQUENCE LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875190274     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs068     Document Type: Article

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