Affective associative learning modifies the sensory perception of nociceptive stimuli without participant's awareness

Pain

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 27-38

  Wunsch, Annabel ^a,b   Philippot, Pierre ^a   Plaghki, Léon ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

^c CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Emotion; Evaluative conditioning; Multidimensional pain experience; Pain affect; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOOD; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMAL STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0037333272     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3959(02)00331-7     Document Type: Article

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