Functional dissociation of stimulus intensity encoding and predictive coding of pain in the insula, 2017, Geuter et al.

Functional dissociation of stimulus intensity encoding and predictive coding of pain in the insula Spoiler: Authors Geuter, Stephan; Boll, Sabrina; Eippert, Falk; Büchel, Christian Abstract The computational principles by which the brain creates a painful experience from nociception are still unknown. Classic theories suggest that cortical regions either reflect stimulus intensity or additive…