The parietal operculum preferentially encodes heat pain and not salience.

Substantial controversy exists as to which part of brain activity is genuinely attributable to pain-related percepts and which activity is due to general aspects of sensory stimulation, such as its salience, or the accompanying arousal. The challenge posed by this question rests largely in the fact...

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Main Authors: Björn Horing, Christian Sprenger, Christian Büchel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-08-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000205