Inverted Perceptual Judgment of Nociceptive Stimuli at Threshold Level following Inconsistent Cues

摘要

ObjectiveThe perception of pain is susceptible to modulation by psychological and contextual factors. It has been shown that subjects judge noxious stimuli as more painful in a respective suggestive context, which disappears when the modifying context is resolved. However, a context in which subjects judge the painfulness of a nociceptive stimulus in exactly the opposite direction to that of the cues has never been shown so far.