Pain perception in the self and observation of others: An ERP investigation

Meng, Jing; Jackson, Todd; Hong, Chen; Hu, Li; Zhou, Yang; Su, Yao; Huang, Xin

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.024

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“…Our study reproduced the results of (Fan and Han, 2008, Li and Han, 2010, Meng et al, 2012, Meng et al, 2013 in terms of ERP correlates, showing significant evidence that pain effects were found, with the mean P450 showing greater amplitudes at the CP3 electrode location in the HAND compared to the TABLE condition.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…The painful stimulation was compared to a control where the same knife attacked only the virtual table that was spatially registered with the real table on which the hand was resting (Figure 1). In short we measured EEG responses, which resulted in similar ERPs compared to previous experiments, with greater P450 effects in CP3 for the painful condition compared to the control condition (Bufalari et al, 2007, Fan and Han, 2008, Li and Han, 2010, Meng et al, 2013.…”

Section: Several Brain Imaging Techniques Have Used Pain Observation mentioning

confidence: 82%

“…A possible caveat in the interpretation of the results is that we cannot easily dissociate some of the intrinsic factors that may be modulating the pattern of ERP responses observed, for example, between empathy and body ownership. Previous empathy related studies (Fan and Han, 2008, Li and Han, 2010, Meng et al, 2012, Meng et al, 2013 suggest that the P450 component is mostly associated to empathy processing. Here, however, it appears to be related to ownership, given that Harm Hand specifically refers to harm to the participant ("… I might be harmed …") a statement that is not compatible with an interpretation that only favours empathy.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…This setup substitutes a person's own body by a virtual body seen from a first person perspective (1PP), such that when participants look down towards their body they would see a virtual body replacing their own (Figure 1). In the experiment the participant's stationary right virtual hand, which was collocated with the real right hand resting on a table, was repeatedly threatened by a virtual knife, thereby reproducing in IVR previously conducted pain observation experiments (Avenanti et al, 2006, Bufalari et al, 2007, Gu and Han, 2007, Fan and Han, 2008, Li and Han, 2010, Meng et al, 2012, Meng et al, 2013. The painful stimulation was compared to a control where the same knife attacked only the virtual table that was spatially registered with the real table on which the hand was resting (Figure 1).…”

Section: Several Brain Imaging Techniques Have Used Pain Observation mentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Studies that have examined the Event Related Potential (ERP) temporal dynamics involved in empathy, measured as the response to observation of pain in others, especially prominent in the motor cortex area, have found greater P450 responses for painful images compared to neutral images (Fan and Han, 2008, Li and Han, 2010, Meng et al, 2012, Meng et al, 2013. These effects were modulated by the realism of the presentation and were stronger with greater realism (Fan and Han, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A threat to a virtual hand elicits motor cortex activation

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We report an ex periment where participants observed an attack on their virtual body as ex perienced in an immersive virtual reality (IVR) system. Participants sat by a table with their right hand resting upon it. In IVR they saw a virtual table that was registered with the real one, and they had a virtual body that substituted their real body seen from a first person perspective. The virtual right hand was collocated with their real right hand. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded in two conditions, one where the participant's virtual hand was attacked with a knife and a control condition where the knife only struck the virtual table. Significantly greater P450 potentials were obtained in the attack condition confirming our ex pectations that participants had a strong illusion of the virtual hand being their own, which was also strongly supported by questionnaire responses. Higher levels of subjective virtual hand ownership correlate with larger P450 amplitudes. Mu-rhythm Event Related Desynchronization (ERD) in the motor cortex , and Readiness Potential (C3-C4) negativity were clearly observed when the virtual hand was threatened -as would be ex pected if the real hand was threatened and the participant tried to avoid harm. Our results support the idea that eventrelated potentials (ERPs) may provide a promising non-subjective measure of virtual embodiment. They also support previous ex periments on pain observation and are placed into contex t of similar ex periments and studies of body-perception and body-ownership within cognitive neuroscience.

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confidence: 86%

Section: Several Brain Imaging Techniques Have Used Pain Observation mentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Several Brain Imaging Techniques Have Used Pain Observation mentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Several Brain Imaging Techniques Have Used Pain Observation mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain‐related attention biases: An eye‐tracking study

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The subsequent interruptive effects of pain on attention

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Liu

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Background: Pain is known to interrupt attentional performance selectively. In a previous study, we showed that the interruptive effect of thermal pain on attention could persist up to 1500 ms after painful stimulus offset, but whether the pain modality affects this subsequent interruptive effect remains unclear. Methods:The present study was conducted to determine the time course of the interruptive effect of electrically induced pain on orienting and executive attention using various intervals between electric stimulation and attentional tasks (0, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1250 and 1500 ms) and three study groups (pain, non-pain and control). We performed two separate experiments in which participants performed a spatial cue task (Experiment 1) and the Stroop task (Experiment 2).Participants in the pain and non-pain groups received brief electric somatosensory stimulation, and those in the control group received no physical stimulus.We compared the performance of the three groups under the interstimulus interval (ISI) conditions. Results:The impairment of orienting attention prevailed under the first six ISI conditions in the pain and non-pain groups (F 2, 63 = 5.72, p < 0.01); executive attention was not affected (F 1,66 = 1.64, p = 0.20), confirming the persistence of the interruptive effect after stimulus offset.Conclusions: This study demonstrated the interruptive effect of somatic stimulation on subsequent orienting attention performance, with no effect on executive attention. These findings suggest that pain has differential effects on the components of attention, depending on its modality and salience.Significance: This study confirmed that pain had a selective subsequent interruptive effect on attention and found that the time course of the interruption depended on the modality of pain and the component of attention.

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Pain perception in the self and observation of others: An ERP investigation

Cited by 93 publications

References 57 publications

A threat to a virtual hand elicits motor cortex activation

A threat to a virtual hand elicits motor cortex activation

Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain‐related attention biases: An eye‐tracking study

The subsequent interruptive effects of pain on attention

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