Alpha and Theta Oscillations Associated With Behavioral Phenotypes of Pain-Attention Interaction.

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Purpose

Pain is inherently salient and so draws our attention in addition to impacting performance on attention-demanding tasks. Individual variability in pain-attention interactions can be assessed by two kinds of behavioral phenotypes that quantify how individuals prioritize pain versus attentional needs. The intrinsic attention to pain (IAP) measure quantifies the degree to which a person attends to pain (high-IAP) or mind-wanders away from pain (low-IAP). The A/P categorization quantifies how pain impacts cognitive performance during an attention-demanding task classifying individuals into P type (pain dominates, worse performance during pain in comparison to no pain) and A type (attention to task dominates, better performance during pain in comparison to no pain). Although pre

SUBMITTER: Kelardashti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11743985 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature