Cognitive Research Seminar: Ignoring Space Around a Painful Limb? No Evidence for a Body-related Visuospatial Attention Bias in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

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Abstract: In this presentation I gave an overview of the work I did on neuropsychological changes in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). CRPS is hypothesized to have neurological underpinnings, and several previous studies have been published investigating spatial biases in this population. Results have been, however, inconsistent. The inconsistencies in the presence and direction of a visuospatial attention bias in CRPS could potentially depend on whether body representation was involved in the task. I presented results on a study in which we tested this hypothesis thoroughly by adapting tasks that are sensitive to subtle visuospatial attention biases (including eye-tracking tasks), tailoring them to test for body-related visuospatial attention bias.

Period	4 Nov 2021
Held at	University of Kent, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International