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Language, Culture and the Neurobiology of Pain: A Theoretical Exploration

Author(s) -

Horacio Fábrega

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

behavioural neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 48

eISSN - 1875-8584

pISSN - 0953-4180

DOI - 10.1155/1989/407435

Subject(s) - consciousness , perception , psychology , cognitive science , cognition , cognitive psychology , pain perception , pain sensation , neuroscience , medicine , anesthesia , physical therapy

Language and culture, as conceptualized in traditional anthropology, may have an important influence on pain and brain-behavior relations. The paradigm case for the influence of language and culture on perception and cognition is stipulated in the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis which has been applied to phenomena “external” to the individual. In this paper, the paradigm is applied to information the person retrieves from “inside” his body; namely, “noxious” stimuli which get registered in consciousness as pain.

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