Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1152-1162

  Tommaso, Marina de ^a   Sardaro, Michele ^a   Livrea, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beauty; Distraction; Laser evoked potentials; Pain; Ugliness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESTHETICS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAINTING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTHETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LASERS, GAS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAINTINGS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749107444     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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