Pain Processing In Relation To Breathing

Participants are required to pace their breathing to their pre-determined individual resonance frequency.

Participants are required to pace their breathing to their pre-determined individual breathing frequency at rest.

Participants will undergo a heat stimulation procedure on their left and right foot (the order of which is counterbalanced across participants). During this procedure, there are 10 blocks, with an inter-stimulus interval of 30 seconds between two blocks. During a block, six 6-second heat stimulations (48 degrees) are given. Between the stimulations, the temperature quickly returns to baseline (32 degrees).