Assessing the effect of pain on demands for attentional resources using ERPs Journal Articles

abstract

• Event-related potentials were used as an adjunct to behavioral and self-report measures to examine the impact of pain in a short-term memory-scanning task. P3 amplitude was reduced and a frontal slow wave was increased during pain regardless of the number of items in memory. Results are discussed in terms of pain affecting an attention-switch mechanism.

authors

• Houlihan, Michael E
• McGrath, Patrick J
• Connolly, John
• Stroink, Gerhard
• Allen Finley, G
• Dick, Bruce
• Phi, Tan-Trao

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2004

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Adolescent (MeSH)
• Adult (MeSH)
• Analysis of Variance (MeSH)
• Attention (MeSH)
• Electroencephalography (MeSH)
• Evoked Potentials (MeSH)
• Experimental Psychology (Science Metrix)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Memory, Short-Term (MeSH)
• Pain (MeSH)
• Photic Stimulation (MeSH)
• Psychomotor Performance (MeSH)
• Reaction Time (MeSH)

published in

• International Journal of Psychophysiology  Journal

keywords

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Analysis of Variance
• Attention
• Electroencephalography
• Evoked Potentials
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Memory, Short-Term
• Pain
• Photic Stimulation
• Psychomotor Performance
• Reaction Time

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2003.08.001

PubMed ID

• 14693366

start page

• 181

end page

• 187

volume

• 51

issue

• 2