Pain: A Statistical Account.
Perception is seen as a process that utilises partial and noisy information to construct a coherent understanding of the world. Here we argue that the experience of pain is no different; it is based on incomplete, multimodal information, which is used to estimate potential bodily threat. We outline...
Main Authors: | Abby Tabor, Michael A Thacker, G Lorimer Moseley, Konrad P Körding |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5230746?pdf=render |
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