Are the spatial features of bodily threat limited to the exact location where pain is expected?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 153, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-119

  Vanden Bulcke, Charlotte ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   Spence, Charles ^b   Van Damme, Stefaan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional set; Bodily threat; Experimental pain; Hypervigilance; TOJ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908617276     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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