Elucidating the role of suggestion in the cognitive control of attention

暗示会影响认知吗？至少有一些证据表明，答案是肯定的。认知研究越来越多地以实验的方式解决这个新问题，尤其是在认知控制和注意力领域。注意力支配着调节认知、情绪、思维和行动的能力。暗示可以影响表现的想法很可能建立在某些形式的暗示--例如催眠暗示--和操作者控制参与者注意力的行为结果之间的直觉联系上。与我的同事们一起，我们已经能够证明这种调节，甚至完全消除了被认为是弹道的、非自愿的和对注意力免疫的经典心理效应。这项研究计划考察是否有可能超越高度实践的、甚至可能是自动的反应，以及我们还需要了解什么，才能清楚地了解暗示如何使注意力发挥作用。

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.