The Concept of Contexts in Pain: Generalization of Contextual Pain-Related Fear Within a De Novo Category of Unique Contexts

• Unpredictable pain induces contextual pain-related fear.• Category-level generalization involves conceptual (instead of perceptual) similarity.• Contextual pain-related fear spreads to novel conceptually related contexts.• Fear generalization was manifest in the self-reports, but not in st artle measures.

Source: The Journal of Pain - October 6, 2017 Category: Materials Science Authors: Ann Meulders, Marc Patrick Bennett Tags: Original Report Source Type: research