Decoding hypnotic consciousness: neural and experiential insights into induced and ideomotor suggestions
Juliette Gélébart, Alexandre Fouré, Romain Quentin, Ursula Debarnot · 2026
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Juliette Gélébart and co-authors wrote a study from 2026 on what hypnosis does to the brain and felt experience. Words under hypnosis can reshape a person's feelings and how they move. The team tracked brain waves, heart and breath, acts, and first-person reports. They compared rest, hypnosis, and a task where people were told their arm was stiff and tried to move it.
Brain changes built gradually, with back-of-head waves easing and links across the front and side growing. Heart signs of calm fell, pointing to an alert, not a sleepy, state. In the stiff-arm task, people split into two groups. One shook as they fought the block. The other held still, feeling the act was not theirs to make. Both felt the loss of control, but brain links differed in ways tied to a clash between plan and sense.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Juliette Gélébart, Alexandre Fouré, Romain Quentin, Ursula Debarnot |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |