Individual differences in cognitive performance under pain linked to region-specific alpha power modulations.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain is associated with reduced cognitive function, potentially due to a diversion of cognitive resources to processing pain. However, reduced cognitive function during pain is not always consistently evidenced, perhaps due to individual differences in the attentional cost of pain processing. In the current electroencephalography investigation, we therefore examined differences in the top-down modulation of oscillatory activity in a cognitive task, between participants who performed better, and worse, during experimentally induced neuropathic-like pain. We employed a cross-modal attention task in which visual cues indicated whether participants needed to judge the visual orientation or discriminate the auditory pitch of an upcoming target. The visual and auditory targets were prese

SUBMITTER: Storey F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12550171 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature