De invloed van aandacht op de verwerking van pijnprikkels en vice versa.
- Conditions
- Healthy participants, without prior physical or psychiatric illnesses and without physical (pain) complaints, will be subjected to one out of six experiments involving different kinds of attention manipulations.
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28188
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Twente
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Other
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 146
Inclusion Criteria
1. Healthy persons aged 18-35 years with normal or corrected-to-normal vision;
2. Gender criteria: N/A.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Persons who used alcohol or psycho-active drugs in the 24 hours prior to the experiment;
2. Persons who took coffee or smoked in the hour prior to the experiment;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The effects of sustained distraction on the processing of these stimuli will be investigated using EEG measurements. The effect of distraction is observed when the event related potentials (evoked by the electrocutaneous stimuli) are smaller in the distraction conditions compared to the attend conditions. When this is observed one can say that distraction has an attenuating effect on painful stimulus processing.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The effects of distracting electrocutaneous stimuli on the performance of attention demanding tasks will be measured.