Hypnosis is a unique form of top-down regulation in which verbal suggestions are capable
of eliciting pronounced changes in a multitude of psychological phenomena. Hypnotic …

Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of
qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

The growing acceptance of consciousness as a legitimate field of enquiry and the
availability of functional imaging has rekindled research interest in the use of hypnosis and …

In 2001, Ramachandran and Hubbard introduced the cross‐activation model of grapheme‐
colour synaesthesia. On the occasion of its 10‐year anniversary, we review the evidence …

Background Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a sensory experience
elicited by auditory and visual triggers, which so far received little attention from the scientific …

In so-called 'mirror-touch synaesthesia', observing touch to another person induces a
subjective tactile sensation on the synaesthete's own body. It has been suggested that this …

Hypnotic suggestibility is part of the wider psychological trait of direct verbal suggestibility
(DVS). Historically, DVS in hypnosis has informed theories of consciousness and of …

We first review recent work from our laboratory, which construes hypnotizability as an
example of a more general trait of capacity for phenomenological control, which people can …