Localization of touch versus heat pain in the human hand: A dissociative effect of temporal parameters on discriminative capacity and decision strategy

Pain

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 6-13

  Ylioja, Shelley ^a   Carlson, Synnöve ^a   Raij, Tuukka T ^b   Pertovaara, Antti ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

C nociceptor; Cutaneous localization; Heat pain; Spatial discrimination; Temporal summation; Touch

Indexed keywords

THULIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE FIBER C; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SKIN PAIN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISCERAL PAIN;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, LASER; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HAND; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 32944469628     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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