Project

Localizing pain on the body: a neuropsychological investigation

Code
3G005811
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • Cognitive science and intelligent systems
    • Developmental psychology and ageing
    • Human experimental psychology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurosciences
    • Neurosciences
Keywords
multimodal perception and chronic pain pain
 
Project description

Adequate responding to painful stimuli often requires a frame of representation of the body and the space nearby. The aim of the present project is to investigate such a peripersonal schema of the body in healthy volunteers and in patients suffering from chronic pain