Pain Draws Visual Attention to Its Location: Experimental Evidence for a Threat-Related Bias

Journal of Pain

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 976-982

  Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Crombez, Geert ^b   Lorenz, Jürgen ^b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; bias; catastrophizing; experimental pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROBABILITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36349033377     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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