eprintid: 29137
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2020-11-27 14:17:26
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type: article
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creators_name: Becker, Susanne
creators_name: Löffler, Martin
creators_name: Seymour, Ben
title: Reward Enhances Pain Discrimination in Humans
subjects: 150
divisions: 851200
keywords: pain perception, discrimination, reward, drift-diffusion model, response bias, sensory strength
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: The notion that reward inhibits pain is a well-supported observation in both humans and animals, allowing suppression of pain reflexes to acquired rewarding stimuli. However, a blanket inhibition of pain by reward would also impair pain discrimination. In contrast, early counterconditioning experiments implied that reward might actually spare pain
discrimination. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether discriminative performance was enhanced or inhibited by reward. We found in adult human volunteers (N = 25) that pain-based discriminative ability is actually enhanced by reward, especially when reward is directly contingent on discriminative performance. Drift-diffusion modeling
shows that this relates to an augmentation of the underlying sensory signal strength and is not merely an effect of decision bias. This enhancement of sensory-discriminative pain-information processing suggests that whereas reward can promote reward-acquiring behavior by inhibition of pain in some circumstances, it can also facilitate important discriminative information of the sensory input when necessary.
date: 2020
publisher: Sage (Publ.)
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00029137
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620939588
ppn_swb: 1750442248
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-291375
language: eng
bibsort: BECKERSUSAREWARDENHA2020
full_text_status: public
publication: Psychological Science
volume: 31
number: 9
place_of_pub: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London
pagerange: 1191-1199
issn: 0956-7976 (Druck-Ausg.), 1467-9280 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Becker, Susanne ; Löffler, Martin ; Seymour, Ben  (2020) Reward Enhances Pain Discrimination in Humans.  Psychological Science, 31 (9).  pp. 1191-1199.  ISSN 0956-7976 (Druck-Ausg.), 1467-9280 (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29137/1/10.1177_0956797620939588.pdf