Shielding cognition from nociception with working memory

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1922-1934

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Distraction; Event related potentials; Executive control; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84879459599     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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