Using mental imagery to reduce or eliminate pain...
Highlights
- • Specific mental imagery contents bias pain perception towards hypoalgesic and hyperalgesic outcomes
- • Mental imagery influences pain-related perceptual decision-making in terms of stimulus discriminability and response bias
- • Pain-related N2 amplitudes are modulated by mental-imagery content
- • Cortical activity associated with pain inhibition likely reflects cognitive inhibitory control
- • Cortical activity associated with pain facilitation likely reflects salience and emotional processing