Selective attention to pain: A psychophysical investigation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 395-402

  Spence, Charles ^a,b,c   Bentley, Deborah E ^a,b,c   Phillips, Nicola ^a,b,c   McGlone, Francis P ^a,b,c   Jones, Anthony K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple resources; Nociception; Pain; Selective attention; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAT; HUMAN; LASER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PAIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSATION;

EID: 0036329623     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1133-6     Document Type: Article

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