The limits of pain and the nature of human experience

This collaboration extends work on two fundamental, quasi-philosophical questions about pain experience.

Using innocuous cold and warm stimulus to create the experience of a burning pain, this novel experiment will provide the first qualitative and quantitative descriptions of such “mini-pains” and measure the accuracy with which people can point to the location of the stimuli.

Area

Neuroscience

UCL leads

• Patrick Haggard, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Partner leads

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

• Giandomenico Iannetti