In medium hypnotizable individuals, oxytocin inhalation impeded the effect of a word blindness post-hypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn people open to hypnosis, inhaled oxytocin weakened the benefit of a word blindness suggestion on an attention task, compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseEffect of word blindness suggestion on Stroop performance
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · inhalationAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
However, contrary to expectations, oxytocin impeded the effect of the word blindness suggestion on performance.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In a double-blind placebo-controlled between-subjects study, medium hypnotizable individuals performed the Stroop task under normal conditions and when they had been given a post-hypnotic suggestion that they would perceive words as meaningless symbols.