Hypnosis and recognition of a face.
13 hypnotically susceptible subjects were given a hypnotic induction procedure with suggestions to facilitate recognition of a target face shown 7 days earlier. Their accuracy was compared with that of 12 subjects in an untreated control condition. There was no support for the hypothesis that hypnosis improves facial recognition; indeed, there was evidence that hypnosis may serve to increase the number of false positive identifications.
D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005145:Face; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013404:Suggestion