ePoster · Cognition
Dynamically learning the meaning of deceptive cues about pain
Emily Hird · Neuromatch 5
Wed, Sep 28, 2022
Beliefs influence the intensity of felt pain. We previously applied regression models to two independent pain-cueing datasets (https://osf.io/5r6z7/) and found that pain intensity reports were a function of the error between participants’ belief, as determined by cues that informed participants about the level of forthcoming noxious stimulation, and the actual stimulation intensity, such that greater error decreased the influence of prior belief. Although this result appeared to present a challenge to established models of perception, our analysis did not formally compare the result against es