Sensory-decision theory analysis of the placebo effect on the criterion for pain and thermal sensitivity (d').

Wc, Clark

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“…Clark (1969), Dillon (1971), Fujita (1930), and Lele, Weddell, and Williams (1954) showed that radiant thermal stimulation to the skin produces the sensations of warmth, sting, pain, itch, and occasionally faint touch, depending on the intensity and duration of heat transfer. A similar transition of sensory qualities was found by Guilford and Lovewell (1936) and Yai (1959Yai ( , 1961 for mechanical stimulation of the skin.…”

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“…One might argued that the data of Experiment 2 can be analyzed by the theory of signal detection. In fact, Clark (1969) and Clark and Yang (1974) applied the theory of signal detection to temperature sensation and succeeded in separating thermal sensitivity (d') from response bias. However, since no blank trial was included in Experiment 2, it does not seem appropriate to use the theory in the original form.…”

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The perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation: Sensory quality, subjective intensity, and intensity-duration relation

Tashiro

Higashiyama

1981

Perception & Psychophysics

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A preliminary and two main experiments designed to examine the perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation are reported. The stimuli used were single short pulses varying in intensity and duration. In Experiment 1, the exponents of power functions fitted to electrocutaneous magnitude estimation data were determined together with the sensory qualities induced by electrical stimulation. The results showed that there was no correlation between the exponent values and the sensory qualities. The mean exponent was 1.2. In Experiment 2, an intensity-duration trading function was constructed from the data obtained from identifying the induced sensory qualities. The results showed that the critical duration increases from 30 to 300 msec with increasing sensation level. These findings are compared with the properties of other sense modalities.

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The perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation: Sensory quality, subjective intensity, and intensity-duration relation

Tashiro

Higashiyama

1981

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…It has been pointed out by several pain researchers that the use of threshold estimation as a measure of pain perception results in confounded data (Chapman, 1974;Chapman, Murphy, & Butler, 1973;Clark, 1969;Clark & Mehl, 1971). Whether these threshold changes are due to sensory factors or to response biases (i.e., changes in the observer's willingness to report an event as being painful) is unclear from the past research.…”

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“…Pain investigators emphasize the importance of using an ROC analysis because only with this procedure are response biases of the observer taken into consideration. Nonsensory variables such as instructions, suggestions, social experience, and even personality have a demonstrated impact on an observer's assessment of a painful experience (Clark, 1969).…”

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Cyclic changes in pain perception: An ROC analysis

Goolkasian

1980

Perception & Psychophysics

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The rating scale responses of three groups of men and women to thermal and painful radiant heat stimuli were studied over a 4-weekperiod. Receiver operating characteristic curve parameters were computed for each of the phases of the menstrual cycle. Women with normal menstrual periods experienced a heightened sensitivity to pain during ovulation. This effect was absent in women using oral contraceptive pills and in men. The findings demonstrate that past reports of pain threshold changes in association with menstrual phase were basically sensory effects and not just a result of shifts in the observer's criteria for reporting pain. In addition, sex differences in pain perception were found only when men were compared with women who were ovulating.The present project reanalyzes the phenomenon of biological rhythms in pain research using the modern psychophysical procedures of the relative operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Evidence for cyclic changes in pain thresholds has been presented in the several studies. Herren (1933) repeatedly measured the 2-point threshold for pain and touch during three phases of the menstrual cycle in women. Premenstrual thresholds were consistently lower than postmenstrual thresholds, and there were no differences found between intermenstrual and postmenstrual phases. Procacci, Zoppi, Maresca, and Romano (1974) report data from a series of investigations with both men and women using the radiant heat method to measure pain thresholds. In women, the pain threshold was found to vary cyclically, reaching a peak at menstruation and a low point at ovulation. For women taking oral contraceptives, the rhythm disappeared. However, a rhythm was reported in menopausal women and to some degree in young men. More recently, Tedford, Warren, and Flynn (1977) reported cyclic changes in the pain threshold in association with the menstrual phases. They did not use a traditional pain detection measure. Instead, a shock aversion threshold was measured in women who had a normal menstrual period, women taking oral contraceptives, and men. The data indicated that only the women in the first group showed significant differences in threshold values among the four phases of the menstrual cycle.Taken together, these studies, employing a variety of techniques, demonstrate a fluctuation of the pain threshold in association with the phases of the menstrual cycle in young women. However, although the I would like to thank JoAnne Wolf and Janet Harrison for their assistance in conducting this research. Requests for reprints should be sent to Paula Goolkasian,

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“…Reprints may be obtained from C. J. Vierck, Jr., Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32601. been accompanied by similar procedural advances in the study of human pain reactions, and the most powerful of these have capitalized upon the ability of human subjects to rank stimuli verbally in terms of their relative noxiousness. For example, magnitude estimation has been used to describe power functions for aversive stimuli (Hilgard, 1969;Stevens, Carton, and Shickman, 1958); and a similar approach of considerable promise has come from signal-detection theory (Green and Swets, 1966;Clark, 1969). In one type of signal-detection experiment, the subject's decision criterion or response bias is manipulated by specific instructions and can then be separated from purely sensory factors by proper treatment of the data.…”

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BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF PAIN DETECTION AND TOLERANCE IN MONKEYS¹

Manning

Vierck

1973

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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Cebus albifrons monkeys received electrical stimulation of the hindlimbs over a wide range of intensities. On trials signalled by a blue light, the animals were permitted to escape shock by pressing a disc, or shock was terminated after 8 sec (free escape). Escape force (disc pressure) was found to increase as stimulation intensity increased well beyond escape threshold, while shock duration curves reached plateau at the mid-range of intensities. The shock duration curves generated by free escape responses should be comparable to pain detection functions obtained by similar operations in humans, and the curves were stable over months of testing, as is generally found in pain-detection studies. On trials signalled by a red light, the animals received intense tail shock immediately after escape responses (punished escape), or, if they endured leg shock for 8 sec without escaping, then they could avoid tail shock with a panel press. The shock duration curves generated by punished escape responses should be comparable to pain tolerance functions as defined for human subjects, and the escape thresholds were considerably higher on redlight trials. As in human studies, the tolerance curves were not stable over repeated testing sessions, and some feature of the paradigm forced a progression toward extremely high levels of tolerance.The behavioral assessment of pain in laboratory animals has progressed from the notation of a variety of reflex reactions following noxious stimulation (Carroll and Lim, 1960;Evans, 1961; Randall and Selitto, 1957;Siegmund, Cadmus, and Lu, 1957) to the measurement of aversion thresholds by operant techniques such as titration (Fields and Glusman, 1969;Weiss and Laties, 1961;Weitzman and Ross, 1962) to the realization that degree of aversiveness can be operationally defined along a continuum of responsiveness that extends over a wide range of stimulus intensities

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Sensory-decision theory analysis of the placebo effect on the criterion for pain and thermal sensitivity (d').

Cited by 148 publications

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The perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation: Sensory quality, subjective intensity, and intensity-duration relation

The perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation: Sensory quality, subjective intensity, and intensity-duration relation

Cyclic changes in pain perception: An ROC analysis

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Sensory-decision theory analysis of the placebo effect on the criterion for pain and thermal sensitivity (d').

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The perceptual properties of electrocutaneous stimulation: Sensory quality, subjective intensity, and intensity-duration relation

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Cyclic changes in pain perception: An ROC analysis

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