Decision-making in the context of pain

Thesis

Clinical and behavioural evidence has shown that the threat value of pain biases decisions about whether a stimulus is perceived as painful or not, and if yes, how intense is the sensation. This thesis aims to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the effect of perceived threat on perceptual decisions about pain. The first study investigates the neural mechanisms underlying the effect of threat on the decision about the quality of the sensation, i.e., whether it is perceived as painful...

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Authors: Lin, C

• Publication date: 2011
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Anxiety; Pain; Functional MRI; Neuroimaging; Decision-making
• Subjects: Cognitive Neuroscience; Anaesthetics