Department of Engineering | University of Cambridge | @flaviaman@techhub.social
Nov 7, 2022 โข 8 tweets โข 3 min read
#pain fluctuates over time. How does the brain make sense of these fluctuations? We show that sensory and motor regions in the brain encode and predict the "rhythm of pain" ๐งต1/8 nature.com/articles/s4146โฆ
We used a statistical learning task, in which healthy participants received probabilistic & volatile sequences of low and high pain stimuli and were asked to guess the probability of forthcoming low/high pain 2/8