Cognitive exertion affects the appraisal of one’s own and other people’s pain

Article Article scientifique Article Cognitive exertion affects the appraisal of one’s own and other people’s pain eng 2023-05-19 2023-05-19 author Riontino Laura 0000-0002-5476-241X 823101 Département de neurosciences fondamentales (NEUFO) author Fournier Raphaël 921121 author Lapteva Alexandra 925657 author Silvestrini Nicolas 0000-0002-5654-9428 509500 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Schwartz Sophie 0000-0001-7718-4053 35633 Département de neurosciences fondamentales (NEUFO) author Corradi Dell'Acqua Corrado 708925 Département de neurosciences fondamentales (NEUFO) 8165 10.1038/s41598-023-35103-w 37208455 2045-2322 PMC10199047 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35103-w Correctly evaluating others’ pain is a crucial prosocial ability. In both clinical and private settings, caregivers assess their other people’s pain, sometimes under the effect of poor sleep and high workload and fatigue. However, the effect played by such cognitive strain in the appraisal of others’ pain remains unclear. Fifty participants underwent one of two demanding tasks, involving either working memory (Experiment 1: N-Back task) or cognitive interference (Experiment 2: Stroop task). After each task, participants were exposed to painful laser stimulations at three intensity levels (low, medium, high), or video-clips of patients experiencing three intensity levels of pain (low, medium, high). Participants rated the intensity of each pain event on a visual analogue scale. We found that the two tasks influenced rating of both one’s own and others’ pain, by decreasing the sensitivity to medium and high events. This was observed either when comparing the demanding condition to a control (Stroop), or when modelling linearly the difficulty/performance of each depleting task (N-Back). We provide converging evidence that cognitive exertion affects the subsequent appraisal of one’s own and likewise others’ pain. Dewey 128.37 Dewey 616.8 Dewey 150 Swiss National Science Foundation Cognitive and neural systems for understanding others and their somatic states 183715 CH Careers Swiss National Science Foundation Deciphering the neural impact of sleep loss on metacognition and empathic judgments for pain in others 182589 CH Projects 15 Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives 0D8 53 Département de neurosciences fondamentales 21A 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 591 Geneva Motivation Lab 495 Neuroimagerie du Sommeil et de la Cognition 832 Scientific reports 13 1 eeb78a62-d97b-4373-b97c-ab8e056e2246 Article (Published version) Public Article-scientifique-from-crossref.pdf 1497173 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 6db5a758a824363ee6922840c7aea0749411530f8afced0b1a026477396647e9 3998e0b7-1b04-4354-b42f-e0ecc0bb4dc7 Supplemental data Public 41598_2023_35103_MOESM1_ESM.docx 105995 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document abf9f92d5afcbbae30081c113eba9aed4b82b53c9a96e15d2614aaefc0de9718 openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de neurosciences fondamentales Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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