Watanabe Laboratory, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Hypnosis Research Team, Centre Hospitalier de Bligny, Briis-sous-Forges, France.
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle epinière, ICM, PICNICLab, Paris, France.
Conscious Cogn. 2021 May;91:103118. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103118. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
To understand the role that attention plays in the deployment timeline of hypnotic anger modulation, we composed an Attentional Blink paradigm where the first and second targets were faces, expressing neutral or angry emotions. We then suppressed the salience of angry faces through a "hypnotic numbing" suggestion. We found that hypnotic suggestion only attenuated the emotional salience of the second target (T2). By implementing drift-diffusion decision modelling, we also found that hypnotic suggestion mainly affected decision thresholds. These findings suggest that hypnotic numbing resulted from belated changes in response strategy. Interestingly, a contrast against non-hypnotized participants revealed that the numbing suggestion had the instruction-like feature of incorporating emotional valence into the attentional task-set. Together, our results portray hypnotic anger modulation as a two-tiered process: first, hypnotic suggestion alters the attentional task-set; second, provided processing and response preparation are not interrupted, a hypnotizability-dependent response based on said altered task-set is produced through late cognitive control strategies.
为了理解注意在催眠愤怒调节的部署时间线上所扮演的角色，我们设计了一个注意瞬脱范式，其中第一个和第二个目标是表达中性或愤怒情绪的面孔。然后，我们通过“催眠麻木”的暗示来抑制愤怒面孔的显著性。我们发现，催眠暗示只减弱了第二个目标（T2）的情绪显著性。通过实施漂移-扩散决策建模，我们还发现催眠暗示主要影响决策阈值。这些发现表明，催眠麻木是由于反应策略的延迟变化所致。有趣的是，与非催眠参与者的对比表明，麻木暗示具有将情绪效价纳入注意力任务集的指令特征。总之，我们的结果描绘了催眠愤怒调节是一个两阶段的过程：首先，催眠暗示改变了注意力任务集；其次，如果处理和反应准备不被打断，那么基于这种改变的任务集的催眠依赖性反应将通过后期认知控制策略产生。
