Another success for our team! We are entering the New Year with a bang! Our team’s study has been accepted for publication in PAIN® and will be published soon!
The main aim of this study was to investigate whether classical conditioning can be involved in ‘learning’ the reported pain distribution, i.e. addressing whether conditioned non-nociceptive stimuli (e.g. visual cues) can elicit pain sensations with a different (higher / lower) reported pain distribution through classical conditioning. The second aim of this experiment was to investigate whether the effect of conditioning is increased when learning is combined with verbal suggestion. The final aim of the experiment was to investigate whether the conditioned pain distribution extends to a perceptually similar but novel stimulus through stimulus generalisation.
The study was conducted as part of the OPUS19 project (2020/37/B/HS6/04196)
