ArticlePsychological science2020
Reward Enhances Pain Discrimination in Humans.
Article in Psychological science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Reward-induced endogenous pain inhibition scales with action-outcome certainty in humans.Pain · 2026Article
- Differential Operant Conditioning of Emotional-Motivational and Sensory-Discriminative Pain Responses.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Advances and challenges in neuroimaging-based pain biomarkers.Cell reports. Medicine · 2024Review
- A novel computational approach to pain perception modelling within a Bayesian framework using quantitative sensory testing.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Measuring pain and nociception: Through the glasses of a computational scientist. Transdisciplinary overview of methods.Frontiers in network physiology · 2023Review
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- Erratum issued
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The notion that reward inhibits pain is a well-supported observation in both humans and animals, allowing suppression of pain reflexes to acquired rewarding stimuli. However, a blanket inhibition of pain by reward would also impair pain discrimination. In contrast, early counterconditioning experiments implied that reward might actually spare pain discrimination. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether discriminative performance was enhanced or inhibited by reward. We found in adult human volunteers (
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