Perceptual information processing of different visual stimuli by eight-year-old children

Suggestions can cause some individuals to miss or disregard existing visual stimuli, but can they infuse sensory input with nonexistent information? Although several prominent theories of hypnotic suggestion propose that mental imagery can change our perceptual experience, data to support this stance remain sparse. The present study addressed this lacuna, showing how suggesting the presence of physically absent, yet critical, visual information transforms an otherwise difficult task into an easy one. Here, we show how adult participants who are highly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion successfully hallucinated visual occluders on top of moving objects. Our findings support the idea that, at least in some people, suggestions can add perceptual information to sensory input. This observation adds meaningful weight to theoretical, clinical, and applied aspects of the brain and psychological sciences.

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Generation of mass assignment with nested focal elements-computation of perceptual information processing (PIP)

18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS (Cat. No.99TH8397) ◽

10.1109/nafips.1999.781684 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A. Inoue ◽

A.L. Ralescu

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Perceptual Information

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Computational model of perceptual information processing

FUZZ-IEEE'99. 1999 IEEE International Fuzzy Systems. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.99CH36315) ◽

10.1109/fuzzy.1999.793055 ◽

1999 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

A. Inoue ◽

A.L. Ralescu

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Computational Model ◽

Perceptual Information

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Task Complexity and Subjective Arousal

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128603000118 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 69-71

Author(s):

Daniel J. Pond ◽

Laurie A. Kimball

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Information Processing ◽

Task Performance ◽

Task Difficulty ◽

Task Complexity ◽

Perceptual Information ◽

Check List ◽

Adjective Check List ◽

Subjective Arousal ◽

Medium Group

Responses on the Activation–Deactivation Adjective Check List were recorded for forty–eight subjects who were performing a visual perceptual information processing task at one of three levels of task difficulty. In general, significant task performance differences in the expected direction were recorded. Two of the activation measures were found to differentiate between low and high task difficulty groups, while the scores for the medium group fell between these two-but did not significantly differ from either. Gender differences for both performance and activation measures were largely not significant.

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