Controlling attention to nociceptive stimuli with working memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Legrain, Valéry ^a,b   Crombez, Geert ^a   Mouraux, André ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAT; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULATION; TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958108151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020926     Document Type: Article

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