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Trial reportBrain and behavior2020

Performance of healthy persons under pain in different cognitive load tasks: An event-related potential study on experimental pain individuals.

Kangling Wang, Guiyuan Cai, Shimin Huang, Yuqi Li, Rongdong Li, Wen Wu

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Trial report in Brain and behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Pain Enhances the Auditory P2 but Attenuates Mismatch Response and P3a.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kangling WangDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4335-7811
Guiyuan CaiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Shimin HuangDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Yuqi LiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Rongdong LiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Wen WuDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5576-2999
Zhujiang Hospital · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81473769National Natural Science Foundation of China 81772430Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong 2014A020212540
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study aims to determine how brain activities underlying task with different cognitive load would be modulated by the painful state using electroencephalography.

methodsThe pain state was established by spraying capsaicin on subjects' left inner forearm. A total of 20 experimental pain subjects and 20 matched nonpain controls underwent cognitive tasks with electroencephalogram recording. We collected and analyzed behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data.

resultsHigh cognitive tasks exhibited significantly longer response times and lower accuracies than low-load tasks. The experimental pain group displayed a significantly lower accuracy than the control group. In addition, the experimental pain group showed no significance between high and low cognitive tasks in early ERP components (amplitude of N1, P2, N2, and early part of late positive potential), whereas the control group exhibited significance between different load tasks. Furthermore, we observed a delay peak energy for delta and theta oscillation in Fz 500-800 ms after the onset for pain persons and high cognitive load tasks.

conclusionsInadequate early attention modulation, along with delayed peak energy for brain oscillation (delta and theta), could be accountable for a worse performance in cognitive tasks in the experimental pain group. Thus, cognitive load is a highly considerable factor. Overall, this study offers more insights into how healthy population works with cognitive tasks under pain neurologically.

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Evoked PotentialsAdolescentAdultCapsaicinCognitionElectroencephalographyFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMalePainReaction TimeYoung AdultCapsaicincognitive loadelectroencephalogramevent-related potentialsoscillationpain

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