BACKGROUND: Diminished executive function and attentional control has been reported in
chronic pain patients. However, the precise pattern of impairment in these aspects of …

The effect of pain processing on attention capacity during visual search was examined in 2
experiments. In the first experiment, we investigated whether pain draws on the same limited …

Several recent studies have suggested that cognitive complaints among chronic pain
patients could result from an interference between ongoing pain and mental tasks, as they …

Objectives: People with chronic pain may experience impairments in high-level cognitive
skills, particularly executive functions. Such impairments are not adequately measured in …

Pain has well-established effects on attention. At present, parallel literatures exist that have
examined the effects of experimentally induced pain and consider cognitive performance in …

The present study draws upon resource‐based models of attention in suggesting that the
processing of chronic and persistent pain is a task that demands the application of central …

A growing body of literature suggests that chronic-pain patients suffer from problems in
various neuropsychological domains, including executive functioning. In order to better …

Alarge body of research has been conducted to study the relationship between pain and
attention. It has been suggested that focusing attention on the performance of a high …

Pain is known to disrupt attentional performance in both healthy adults and patients with
chronic pain. Exactly which aspects of attentional function are affected are, however, still to …

Objective. In this study, the relationship between pain intensity, neuropsychological, and
physical function in adult chronic pain patients was examined. Design. Thirty participants …