Experimentally induced pain does not influence updating of peripersonal space and body representations following tool-use.

ABSTRACT: Representations of the body and peripersonal space can be distorted for people with some chronic pain conditions. Experimental pain induction can give rise to similar, but transient distortions in healthy individuals. However, spatial and bodily representations are dynamic, and constantly update as we interact with objects in our environment. It is unclear whether induced pain disrupts the mechanisms involved in updating these representations. In the present study, we sought to investigate the effect of induced pain on the updating of peripersonal space and body representations during and following tool-use. We compared performance under three conditions (pain, active placebo, neutral) on a visuotactile crossmodal congruency task and a tactile distance judgement task to measure updating of

SUBMITTER: Vitterso AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6522125 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature