Attempts to control pain prioritize attention towards signals of pain: An experimental study

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1068-1073

  Notebaert, Lies ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   Vogt, Julia ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Van Damme, Stefaan ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Avoidance; Control; Fear; Hypervigilance; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNALS OF PAIN; SKIN STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954604131     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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