Are both the sensory and the affective dimensions of pain encoded in the face?

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Published in Pain on November 22, 2011

Authors

Miriam Kunz1, Stefan Lautenbacher, Nadine LeBlanc, Pierre Rainville

Author Affiliations

1: Physiological Psychology, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. miriam.kunz@uni-bamberg.de

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