Viewing the body modulates both pain sensations and pain responses

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1795-1805

  Beck, Brianna ^a,b,c   Làdavas, Elisabetta ^a,b   Haggard, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Crossmodal; Nociception; Pain; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HEAT PAIN THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERMAL STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; HAND; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958749323     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4585-9     Document Type: Article

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