Looking at one’s own body may induce visual analgesia. However, the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying such visual analgesia are unknown. As body and pain representations in the brain are multisensory, and have been reported to be partially overlapping, we here investigated whether experimentally-induced changes in bodily self-consciousness (BSC) modulate pain. We measured physiological responses to pain (Skin Conductance Response – SCR) and the subjective experience of pain, under conditions of manipulated BSC.
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