Pain modulates early sensory brain responses to task-irrelevant emotional faces

In this paper, we found that lab-induced pain can alter both featural (reflected by P1) and structural face-sensitive (reflected by N170) visual encoding responses of emotional faces, even when the faces are irrelevant to the task.

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Recommended citation: Xu, Q., Ye, C., Li, X., Zhao, G., & Astikainen, P. (2023). Pain modulates early sensory brain responses to task‐irrelevant emotional faces. European Journal of Pain., DOI: 10.1002/ejp.2097