Top-down processing is defined as the use of context and general knowledge to understand and interpret sensory perceptions.
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We first introduce hypnosis as a form of top-down regulation and describe its principal characteristics and provide examples of different psychological phenomena that can be modulated via suggestion. Subsequently, we turn to the use of hypnosis as a method for cog- nitive neuroscience and ...
The modulation of top-down attention on the empathic processing of pain in the visual modality has been well documented3,4. The attention allocation of participants is typically manipulated via two different task instructions: (1) a pain judgement task, where participants are instructed to judge th...
Processing of multimodal information is a critical capacity of the human brain, with classic studies showing bimodal stimulation either facilitating or interfering in perceptual processing. Comparing activity to congruent and incongruent bimodal stimuli
everyday-life situations17. Indeed, body movements are not perceived in isolation but with objects, actors, and the relationships among them ‘gluing together’ into a unifying scene. In other words, this integrative aspect, which is inherent to the processing of naturalistic scenes, seems to be...
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