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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnosis tells us about a basic human capacity for altered experiences that is often overlooked in contemporary western societies. Throughout the 200 year history of psychology, hypnosis has been a major topic of investigation by some of the leading experimenters and theorists of each generation. Today hypnosis is emerging again as a lively area of research within cognitive (systems level) neuroscience informing basic questions about the structure and biological basis of conscious states.This book describes the latest advances in understanding hypnosis and similar trance states by researchers within the neuroscience of consciousness. It contains many new and exciting contributions from up and coming researchers and provides a lively debate on methodological and theoretical issues central to the development of emerging research paradigms in the neu
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Previews and prospects for the cognitive neroscience of hypnosis and conscious states ; PART I - FUNCTIONAL BRAIN NETWORKS ; 2. Hypnotic regulation of consciousness and the pain neuromatrix ; 3. Cognitive control processes and hypnosis ; 4. Cortical mechanisms of hypnotic pain control ; 5. Phase-ordered gamma oscillations and the modulation of hypnotic experience ; PART II - DISSOCIATION ; 6. Hypnosis and the unity of consciousness ; 7. Dissociated control as a paradigm for cognitive neuroscience research and theorizing in hypnosis ; PART III - STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ; 8. New paradigms of hypnosis research ; 9. Hypnosis and neuroscience: implications for the altered state debate ; 10. An empirical-phenomenological approach to quantifying consciousness and states of consciousness: with particular reference to understanding the nature of hypnosis ; 11. On the contribution of neurophysiology to hypnosis research: current state and future directions ; PART IV - THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF TRANCE ; 12. The experience of consciousnesss and hypnosis from an evolutionary perspective ; 13. To see feelingly: emotion, motivation and hypnosis ; 14. States of absorption: in search of neurobiologial foundations ; 15. Time distortion, and the nature of hypnosis and consciousness ; 16. Executive control without conscious awareness: the cold control theory of hypnosis
