Pain modulates early sensory brain responses to task-irrelevant emotional faces.
Qianru XuChaoxiong YeXueqiao LiGuoying ZhaoPiia AstikainenPublished in: European journal of pain (London, England) (2023)
The observed alterations in face perception due to pain may have consequences for real-life interactions, as fast and automatic encoding of facial emotions is important for social interactions.