The Effect of High Versus Low Cognitive Load on the Development of Nociceptive Hypersensitivity: The Roles of Sympathetic Arousal, Sex, and Pain-Related Fear.
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DOI: 10.1002/ejp.2098
Abstract: BACKGROUND According to limited-capacity theories of attention, less attentional resources remain available when engaging in a high versus a low demanding cognitive task. This may reduce the perceived intensity and the evoked cortical responses of… read more here.
Keywords: sympathetic arousal; load; cognitive load; pain related ... See more keywords
Sympathetic arousal, but not disturbed executive functioning, mediates the impairment of cognitive flexibility under stress
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.004
Abstract: Cognitive flexibility emerges from an interplay of multiple cognitive systems, of which lexical-semantic and executive are thought to be the most important. Yet this has not been addressed by previous studies demonstrating that such forms… read more here.
Keywords: executive; cognitive flexibility; stress; sympathetic arousal ... See more keywords