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You're right, my bad :) If it's not direct it's indirect then. I guess this ties in with the findings of the study linked to in the first post: when a person under hypnosis believes to have one of his/her hands paralyzed, if you ask him/her to move it, the brain area that governs movement "ligh...

Originally posted by satanstoystore
subject allows suggestion to inhibit motor function

Haven't we established hypnotic suggestions do not act through direct motor inhibition?

Thanks, what about the bit stating hypnosis does not act through direct motor inhibition?

Can anyone enlighten as to the meaning of hypnosis may enhance self-monitoring processes to allow internal representations generated by the suggestion to guide behavior but does not act through direct motor inhibition , possibly through an example? [url=http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273...

Well, the example given in the podcast, where people in the dance club experience the expectation of something coming which materialises when everybody realises where the downbeats are and so at that point that's a signal for them to start dancing, to me draws a parallel with hypnotic inductions/pos...

Thanks. The podcast really shed some insight. Looks like music is actually processed by the same brain areas as speech and both rely heavily on expectation fulfillment as a measure predicting the degree of likeability in relation to the incoming sounds. I can see a common thread with hypnosis.

Is music processed by the same brain hemisphere that processes speech? Why does our mind/brain like music? I mean, music isn't essential to life so what mechanism makes it so that our mind/brain receives gratification in listening to it? Are there any research results on this topic?

Sorry for the multiple posts folks, this time around the system did trick me no end.

Hi, welcome to the forum.
There are several approaches(hypnotherapy being one of them) and links about the topic here

Hold on one sec; it says, "If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa." So, Megan and Michael, you ought to be more right-brained.

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Indeed. He'll be sadly missed.