Illusions
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain.

30 Aug 2009 Suggestion, a powerful factor in everyday social interaction, is most effective during hypnosis. Subjective evaluations and brain-imaging findings converge to propose that hypnotic suggestion strongly modulates sensory processing. To reveal the ... Read more...

Aging and fluency-based illusions in recognition memory.

30 Aug 2009 We examined age-related differences in susceptibility to fluency-based memory illusions. The results from 2 experiments, in which 2 different methods were used to enhance the fluency of recognition test items, revealed that older and young adults ... Read more...

Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide.

30 Jul 2009 One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Illusions'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Aging and fluency-based illusions in recognition memory. 30 Aug 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Virtual limbs and body space: Critical features for the distinction between body space and near-body space. 30 Jul 2009
• Perceived shrinkage of motion paths. 30 Jul 2009
• Object substitution masking induced by illusory masks: evidence for higher object-level locus of interference. 30 Jul 2009
• Electrophysiological evidence for a post-perceptual influence of global visual context on perceived orientation. 21 Jul 2009
• Cortical evoked potentials to an auditory illusion: binaural beats. 16 Jul 2009
• Is subjective duration a signature of coding efficiency? 10 Jul 2009
• Early induced beta/gamma activity during illusory contour perception. 8 Jul 2009
• Haptic shape perception from force and position signals varies with exploratory movement direction and the exploring finger. 29 Jun 2009
• Disjunctive illusory inferences and how to eliminate them. 29 Jun 2009
• Is this hand for real? Attenuation of the rubber hand illusion by transcranial magnetic stimulation over the inferior parietal lobule. 29 Jun 2009
• Perceptual integration of illusory and imagined kinesthetic images. 29 Jun 2009
• The impact of real and illusory target perturbations on manual aiming. 28 Jun 2009
• In praise of subjective truths. 13 Jun 2009
• A Judd illusion in far-aiming: evidence of a contribution to action by vision for perception. 12 Jun 2009
• Audiovisual temporal capture underlies flash fusion. 10 Jun 2009
• Semantic illusion depends on information structure: ERP evidence. 4 Jun 2009
• The effect of tactile discrimination training is enhanced when patients watch the reflected image of their unaffected limb during training. 4 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Illusions'

Definition: The misinterpretation of a real external, sensory experience.

Descriptor UI: D007088

Alternative terms: Illusions; Illusion; Autokinetic Illusions; Autokinetic Illusion; Illusion, Autokinetic; Illusions, Autokinetic; Illusions, Visual; Illusion, Visual; Visual Illusion; Visual Illusions; Illusions, Kinesthetic; Illusion, Kinesthetic; Kinesthetic Illusion; Kinesthetic Illusions; Illusions, Tactile; Illusion, Tactile; Tactile Illusion; Tactile Illusions; Autokinetic Effect; Effect, Autokinetic; Autokinetic Effects; Effects, Autokinetic; Illusions, Auditory; Auditory Illusion; Auditory Illusions; Illusion, Auditory;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; etiology; genetics; history; physiology; psychology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.762.400; C23.888.592.604.764.400; F01.700.750.400; F02.463.593.446;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: do not confuse with DELUSIONS