Psychophysical study of noxious and innocuous cold discrimination in monkey

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-34

  Rainville, Pierre ^a   Chen, Chao Chen ^a   Bushnell, M Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold; Discrimination; Pain; Psychophysics; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY NERVE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMAL STIMULATION; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033063066     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050654     Document Type: Article

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