Elucidating the role of suggestion in the cognitive control of attention

暗示能影响认知吗？ 至少有证据表明，答案是肯定的。 认知研究越来越多地通过实验来解决这个新生的问题，没有比认知控制和注意力领域更好的了。 注意力支配着调节认知、情感、思想和行动的能力。 暗示可以影响表现的想法可能很好地依赖于某些形式的暗示（例如，催眠暗示）和行为结果之间的直觉联系，其中操作者控制参与者的注意力。 我们与同事们一起，已经能够证明调节甚至完全消除被认为是弹道的，非自愿的和免疫注意力的经典心理效应。 这个研究项目考察了是否有可能推翻高度练习的，甚至可能是自动的反应，以及我们需要了解的其他内容，以便清楚地了解暗示如何操作注意。

Can suggestion influence cognition? At least some evidence proposes that the answer is affirmative. Cognitive research is increasingly addressing this nascent question experimentally, nowhere more prevalently than in the domain of cognitive control and attention. Attention governs the ability to modulate cognition, emotion, thought, and action. The idea that suggestion can influence performance may well rest on the intuitive connection between certain forms of suggestion -- for example, hypnotic suggestion -- and behavioural outcome, where the operator controls the participant's attention. Together with my colleagues, we have been able to demonstrate the modulation and even the complete elimination of classic psychological effects that are considered to be ballistic, involuntary and immune to attention. This research program examines whether it is possible to override highly practiced, possibly even automatic, responses, and what else we need to understand into order to obtain a clear picture of how suggestion can operationalize attention.