Emotional affection on a sustained attention task: The importance the aging process and depression.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain is a complex experience that has now become a major public health issue. This has prompted many researchers to study attention, understanding it to be a crucial factor that allows altering the experience of pain, while attributing considerable importance to sustained attention. Accordingly, the main studies in this field stress the importance of emotion regulation processes and emotions on the perception of painful stimuli and attentional processes themselves. Nevertheless, only a handful of studies have been found that directly study the relationship between these variables. Within this context, this article sets out to analyse emotional regulation processes, emotional variables (depression and anxiety), the experience of pain, and age on the ability to maintain the vigilance

SUBMITTER: Pinel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7323986 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature