Brief, prolonged and repeated stimuli applied to hyperalgesic skin areas: a psychophysical study

Habituation to repeated painful and non-

Habituation to repeated painful and non-painful cutaneous stimuli: a quantitative psychophysical study

✍ R. J. Milne; N. E. Kay; R. J. Irwin 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 733 KB

Repeated stimuli elicit progressively smaller responses and elevated sensory and/or pain thresholds (habituation). The present experiments were designed to determine the rate of habituation of perceptual responses to supraliminal painful and non-painful cutaneous stimuli. Changes in the perceived in