Hypnotic suggestions cognitively penetrate tactile perception through top-down modulation of semantic contents

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 6578 - 13
• Main Authors: Markmann, Marius, Lenz, Melanie, Höffken, Oliver, Steponavičiūtė, Agnė, Brüne, Martin, Tegenthoff, Martin, Dinse, Hubert R., Newen, Albert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.04.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378; 631/477; 692/308; 692/617; Cognition; Cortex (frontal); Finger; Frequency dependence; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hypnosis; Information processing; multidisciplinary; Perception; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Semantics; Sensory neurons; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spatial discrimination; Suggestion; Synchronization; Tactile discrimination; Tactile perception; Touch; Touch Perception - physiology

Perception is subject to ongoing alterations by learning and top-down influences. Although abundant studies have shown modulation of perception by attention, motivation, content and context, there is an unresolved controversy whether these examples provide true evidence that perception is penetrable...