Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.

Although forgetting is often regarded as a deficit that we need to control to optimize cognitive functioning, it can have beneficial effects in a number of contexts. We examined whether disrupting memory for previous numerical responses would attenuate repetition avoidance (the tendency to avoid rep...

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Autores principales:	Devin Blair Terhune, Peter Brugger
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5213d910af264a9e83f9fc9669b533b82021-11-18T07:31:59ZDoing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0029206https://doaj.org/article/5213d910af264a9e83f9fc9669b533b82011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22195022/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Although forgetting is often regarded as a deficit that we need to control to optimize cognitive functioning, it can have beneficial effects in a number of contexts. We examined whether disrupting memory for previous numerical responses would attenuate repetition avoidance (the tendency to avoid repeating the same number) during random number generation and thereby improve the randomness of responses. Low suggestible and low dissociative and high dissociative highly suggestible individuals completed a random number generation task in a control condition, following a posthypnotic amnesia suggestion to forget previous numerical responses, and in a second control condition following the cancellation of the suggestion. High dissociative highly suggestible participants displayed a selective increase in repetitions during posthypnotic amnesia, with equivalent repetition frequency to a random system, whereas the other two groups exhibited repetition avoidance across conditions. Our results demonstrate that temporarily disrupting memory for previous numerical responses improves random number generation.Devin Blair TerhunePeter BruggerPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 12, p e29206 (2011)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Devin Blair Terhune Peter Brugger Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
description	Although forgetting is often regarded as a deficit that we need to control to optimize cognitive functioning, it can have beneficial effects in a number of contexts. We examined whether disrupting memory for previous numerical responses would attenuate repetition avoidance (the tendency to avoid repeating the same number) during random number generation and thereby improve the randomness of responses. Low suggestible and low dissociative and high dissociative highly suggestible individuals completed a random number generation task in a control condition, following a posthypnotic amnesia suggestion to forget previous numerical responses, and in a second control condition following the cancellation of the suggestion. High dissociative highly suggestible participants displayed a selective increase in repetitions during posthypnotic amnesia, with equivalent repetition frequency to a random system, whereas the other two groups exhibited repetition avoidance across conditions. Our results demonstrate that temporarily disrupting memory for previous numerical responses improves random number generation.
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title	Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
title_short	Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
title_full	Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
title_fullStr	Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
title_full_unstemmed	Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.
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Doing better by getting worse: posthypnotic amnesia improves random number generation.

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