Title: Neurobiological Mediators of Pain Report across Language context of Spanish-English Bilingual Adults.
Session: Oral Session
Speaker: Morgan Gianola
Abstract: Within bilingual persons, social and cognitive processes known to influence pain perception, such as attention or stress (Cathcart et al., 2008; LeGrain et al., 2009), are seen to vary across language contexts (Hahn & Cantrel, 2012). We previously found that Spanish-English bilingual participants rated painful heat stimulation as more intense in their culturally preferred language (Gianola et al., 2021). This fMRI study sought to assess how neural systems involved in somatosensory, attention, semantic, and pain processing may contribute to differences in pain report across English and Spanish contexts for bilingual adults. We further investigated how mediation of the language to pain rating relationship by these neural systems may vary across participants' cultural identity profiles.
17 сен 2024
