A Bayesian Perspective on Sensory and Cognitive Integration in Pain Perception and Placebo Analgesia
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The placebo effect is a component of any response to a treatment (effective or inert), but we still ignore why it exists. We propose that placebo analgesia is a facet of pain perception, others being the modulating effects of emotions, cognition and past experience, and we suggest that a computational understanding of pain may provide a unifying explanation of these phenomena. Here we show how Bayesian decision theory can account for such features and we describe a model of pain that we tested against experimental data. Our model not only agrees with placebo analgesia, but also predicts that learning can affect pain perception in other unexpected ways, which experimental evidence supports. Finally, the model can also reflect the strategies used by pain perception, showing that modulation by disparate factors is intrinsic to the pain process.
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- Authors
- Anchisi, D., & Zanon, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Udine (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Anchisi, Davide
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2015-02-09
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e0117270
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4321992
- OpenAlex
- W1976728550
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 3.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System (University of Udine) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
- Keywords
- placebo analgesia, pain perception, Bayesian decision theory, sensory integration, cognitive integration, emotional modulation of pain, prior experience
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analgesia, Bayes Theorem, Cognition, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Pain, Placebo Effect, Young Adult, Pain Perception, Pain Management
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