Comments on: Hypnosis can stop Stroop effect http://neurodudes.com/2005/11/22/hypnosis-can-stop-stroop-effect/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:32:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bayle http://neurodudes.com/2005/11/22/hypnosis-can-stop-stroop-effect/#comment-305536 Bayle Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:33:52 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/2005/11/22/hypnosis-can-stop-stroop-effect/#comment-305536 A followup article shows that a similar effect can be had by suggestion alone, without hypnosis. This deflates the usefulness of the original article as evidence that hypnosis is "real", however, it is interesting in another respect; it means that the Stroop effect is less hard-wired/obligatory than usually thought, and can be dialed down by ordinary top-down processing. Amir Raz, Irving Kirsch, Jessica Pollard, Yael Nitkin-Kaner (2006) <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01669.x" rel="nofollow">Suggestion Reduces the Stroop Effect</a> Psychological Science 17 (2), 91–95. A followup article shows that a similar effect can be had by suggestion alone, without hypnosis.

This deflates the usefulness of the original article as evidence that hypnosis is “real”, however, it is interesting in another respect; it means that the Stroop effect is less hard-wired/obligatory than usually thought, and can be dialed down by ordinary top-down processing.

Amir Raz, Irving Kirsch, Jessica Pollard, Yael Nitkin-Kaner (2006)
Suggestion Reduces the Stroop Effect
Psychological Science 17 (2), 91–95.

]]> By: Bayle http://neurodudes.com/2005/11/22/hypnosis-can-stop-stroop-effect/#comment-1027 Bayle Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:09:11 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/2005/11/22/hypnosis-can-stop-stroop-effect/#comment-1027 Ah, you beat me, i just saw this article and was coming here to post it :) Ah, you beat me, i just saw this article and was coming here to post it :)

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