|
|
Article: Hypnosis, memory, and frontal executive functioning
- Article from:
- American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Jul 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Farvolden, P. & Woody, E. Z. (2004). Hypnosis, memory, and frontal executive functioning. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(1), 326. This study sought to compare the performance of high and low hypnotizable subjects on a variety of memory tasks believed to be sensitive to frontal lobe functioning, as well as some control memory tasks not related to frontal lobe function. High hypnotizablcs consistently performed less well on the frontal memory tasks compared with low hypnotizables. High hypnotizables performed relatively poorly on source-amnesia, free-recall (of non-meaningful, unrelated words), and proactive-interference. However, high hypnotizables did ...