Dissociable systems for body-oriented and world-oriented pain learning

Thesis

Pain is a crucial cognitive construct that guides flexible decision-making in dangerous environments, evaluating both the external world and our bodily integrity, and linking cognitive evaluation on exteroception with perceptive bodily integrity of interoception. A challenge is to understand its neural representations in the human brain. To address this, we aimed to acquire new knowledge on the conceptual basis of pain underlying two fundamental distinctions: i) cognitive problems located wit...

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Authors: Yan, Y

• Alternative title: Dissociable pain learning
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-bm9y5vbde
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: aversive learning; virtual reality; functional MRI; cognitive pain; electrocardiography; decision-making; arbitration; reinforcement learning
• Subjects: Computational neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience