The nociceptive system has evolved a range of intriguing characteristics. Spatial summation is one such characteristic, whereby increasing the area of a stimulus, or the distance between multiple stimuli, results in more intense pain—not only ...

In recent years there has been growing interest in how pain and nociception are influenced by visual and proprioceptive inputs. Research has demonstrated that nociceptive inputs, like tactile inputs, are localized using two frames of ...

The rate of smartphone ownership in Australia is among the highest in the world. According to the Deloitte 2015 Consumer Survey, almost 80% of Australians own a smartphone. Online technologies, such as apps, can help ...

This is the seventh in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — I was delighted to be asked to present a chapter from the ...

This is the sixth in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — Every day we are bombarded with expressions that borrow from the world ...