Pain and the peripersonal space

Adequately responding to a painful stimulus requires knowing where pain is localized on the body, but also where the cause of pain is localized in the external world. This involves for the brain to coordinate the somatotopic representation of the body and the representations of the space around the body. According to a recent theory, the spatial localization of pain depends on a cortical mapping system that integrates nociceptive (localization of the salient and threatening stimulus on the body), proprioceptive (localization of the limbs in external space) and visual information (localization of the cause/source of pain in the external world) into a multimodal and peripersonal representation of the body and the space nearby.

Researchers involved

Louise Manfron

Valéry Legrain

Lieve Filbrich

Charlotte Verfaille

Camille Vanderclausen

Publications

2017

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Evidence for an integrated visuo-nociceptive representation of the peripersonal space of the hand

Neuropsychologia

De Paepe AL, Crombez G, Legrain V.

101:121-131

2017

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Do somatic symptoms affect the perception of extra-somatic stimuli?

Brain

Legrain V.

140(9):2254-2256

2017

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Orienting attention in visual space by nociceptive stimuli. Investigation with temporal order judgment tasks based on the adaptive PSI method

Experimental Brain Research

Filbrich L, Alamia A, Burns S, Legrain V.

235(7):2069-2079

2016

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Using temporal order judgments to investigate attention bias towards pain and threat-related information. Methodological and theoretical issues

Consciousness and Cognition

Filbrich L, Torta DM, Vanderclausen C, Azanon E, Legrain V.

41:135-8

2016

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What is coming near? The influence of dynamic visual stimuli on nociceptive processing

PLoS ONE

De Paepe AL, Crombez G, Legrain V.

11(5):e0155864

2015

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Watching what is coming near increases tactile sensitivity: an experimental investigation

Behavioural Brain Research

Van der Biest L, Legrain V, De Paepe A, Crombez G.

297:307-14

2015

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From a somatotopic to a spatiotopic frame of reference for the localization of nociceptive stimuli

PLoS ONE

De Paepe AL, Crombez G, Legrain V.

10(8):e0137120

2015

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Frequency-tagging of steady-state evoked potentials to explore the crossmodal links in spatial attention between vision and touch

Psychophysiology

Colon E, Huang G, Legrain V, Mouraux A.

2015

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Looking at the hand modulates the brain responses to nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory stimuli but does not necessarily modulate their perception

Psychophysiology

Torta DM, Legrain V, Mouraux A.

52(8):1010-8

2014

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Shifting attention between the space of the body and external space. Electrophysiological correlates of visual-nociceptive crossmodal spatial attention

Psychophysiology

Favril L, Mouraux A, Sambo CS, Legrain V.

51(5):464-77

2014

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Mapping nociceptive stimuli in a peripersonal frame of reference: Evidence from a temporal order judgment task

Neuropsychologia

De Paepe A, Crombez G, Spence C, Legrain V.

56:219-28

2012

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Steady-state evoked potentials to study the processing of tactile and nociceptive somatosensory input in the human brain

Neurophysiologie Clinique - Clinical Neurophysiology

Colon E, Legrain V, Mouraux A.

42(5):315-23

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