Attentional bias to pain-related information: a meta-analysis of dot-probe studies

J Todd, DML van Ryckeghem, L Sharpe… - Health psychology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Studies investigating attentional biases towards pain information vary widely in both design
and results. The aim of this meta-analysis was to determine the degree to which attentional …

Pain and consciousness

L Garcia-Larrea, H Bastuji - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aversive experience we call “pain” results from the coordinated activation of multiple
brain areas, commonly described as a “pain matrix”. This is not a fixed arrangement of …

Cognitive biases in pain: an integrated functional–contextual framework

DML Van Ryckeghem, M Noel, L Sharpe, T Pincus… - Pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Contemporary models explaining the exacerbation and maintenance of pain, disability, and
distress assign a pivotal role to cognitive biases. These models assume that cognitive …

Mapping dynamic interactions among cognitive biases in depression

J Everaert, A Bernstein, J Joormann… - Emotion …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional
information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not …

Pain-related attentional processes: a systematic review of eye-tracking research

FHF Chan, H Suen, T Jackson, JWS Vlaeyen… - Clinical Psychology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biases in the way that people direct their attention towards or away from pain-related
information are hypothesised to contribute to the onset and severity of pain-related …

The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style

A Wauters, T Vervoort, M Noel, E Rheel… - … Research and Therapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Children's heightened attention to pain and parental narrative style have been linked to the
development of negatively-biased pain memories in children (ie, recalling higher levels of …

Examining attentional biases, interpretation biases, and attentional control in people with and without chronic pain

E BlaisdaleJones, L Sharpe, J Todd, H MacDougall… - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Psychological models of chronic pain (CP) highlight cognitive-processing biases (ie,
attentional biases, interpretation biases, and attentional control) as pivotal processes that …

Attentional, interpretation and memory biases for sensory-pain words in individuals with chronic headache

DE Schoth, R Beaney, P Broadbent… - British Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: Cognitive biases in attention, interpretation and less consistently memory have
been observed in individuals with chronic pain and play a critical role in the onset and …

[HTML][HTML] Autobiographical memory predicts postsurgical pain up to 12 months after major surgery

A Waisman, V Kleiman, PM Slepian, H Clarke, J Katz - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Recent cross-sectional studies have identified differences in autobiographical memory (AM)
among individuals with chronic pain, but the temporal relationship between the 2 is …

The effects of attentional and interpretation biases on later pain outcomes among younger and older adults: a prospective study

FHF Chan, H Suen, AB Chan, JH Hsiao… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Studies examining the effect of biased cognitions on later pain outcomes have
primarily focused on attentional biases, leaving the role of interpretation biases largely …