Hypnotizability and sensorimotor integration: an Italian Space Agency project. 2010

Manuel Menzocchi, and Giulia Paoletti, and Alexa Huber, and Giancarlo Carli, and Francesca I Cavallaro, and Diego Manzoni, and Enrica L Santarcangelo
University of Siena, Italy.

In highly hypnotizable individuals (highs), postural control is more independent of sensory information than in low hypnotizable subjects (lows). The aim of the study was to find out whether locomotion is also less affected in highs than in lows by visual suppression and changes in the neck proprioceptive input. Eighteen highs and 20 lows were asked to walk straight ahead, blindfolded, in basal conditions (face forward), during real and imagined right/left head rotation and mental computation. Highs detected deviations from the straight trajectory better than lows. Their walking direction was more straight during basal conditions and less influenced than the lows' one by mental computation and real/imagined rotation of the head. The results confirm highs' lower dependence on sensory inputs, although this cannot be definitely attributed to a better internal representation of space or to higher behavioral automaticity.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006990 Hypnosis A state of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction, initially induced by the influence of another person or oneself. Autohypnosis,Clinical Hypnosis,Hypnoanalysis,Mesmerism,Self-Hypnosis,Hypnotherapy,Hypnotism,Hypnosis, Clinical,Hypnotherapies,Self Hypnosis
D007558 Italy A country in southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia. The capital is Rome. Sardinia
D008297 Male Males
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D055815 Young Adult A person between 19 and 24 years of age. Adult, Young,Adults, Young,Young Adults
D056228 Feedback, Sensory A mechanism of communicating one's own sensory system information about a task, movement or skill. Visual Feedback,Audio Feedback,Proprioceptive Feedback,Sensorimotor Feedback,Audio Feedbacks,Feedback, Audio,Feedback, Proprioceptive,Feedback, Sensorimotor,Feedback, Visual,Feedbacks, Audio,Feedbacks, Proprioceptive,Feedbacks, Sensorimotor,Feedbacks, Sensory,Feedbacks, Visual,Proprioceptive Feedbacks,Sensorimotor Feedbacks,Sensory Feedback,Sensory Feedbacks,Visual Feedbacks

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