Experimental hypervigilance changes the intensity/unpleasantness ratio of pressure sensations: evidence for the generalized hypervigilance hypothesis

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1377-1384

  Hollins, Mark ^a   Walters, Sloan ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Hypervigilance; Pressure; Sensation intensity; Unpleasantness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CATASTROPHIZING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTING TASK; FEMALE; GENERALIZED HYPERVIGILANCE HYPOTHESIS; HUMAN; INTENSITY RATIO; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE SENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUND; UNPLEASANTNESS RATIO; WEIGHTED ROD TEST; WRITING; WRITING TASK; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PRESSURE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952647310     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4541-0     Document Type: Article

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