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 …

Pain is known to interrupt attentional performance. Such interference effects seem to occur
preferentially for tasks that are complex and/or difficult. However, few studies have directly …

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 …

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 …

Pain is known to interrupt attention. This interruption is highly sensitive to the extent of
involvement of both attentional control and the level of threat associated with the sensation …

Pain draws on attentional resources, thereby disturbing the pursuit of ongoing activities.
Several studies have made use of the primary task paradigm to study the disruptive function …

Pain interrupts, distracts and takes effort to ignore. Focusing our research attention upon this
central aspect of pain experience, an experimental paradigm is introduced to study the …

Attention is acknowledged as an important factor in the modulation of pain. A recent model
proposed that an effective control of pain by attention should not only involve the …

Pain interrupts and demands attention. The authors review evidence for how and why this
interruption of attention is achieved. The interruptive function of pain depends on the …

Attention is a key concept in many theories of pain perception. A clinically popular idea is
that pain is more intense in persons who are hypervigilant for or bias their attention to pain …