Pierre Rainville

The paper shows that performance under pain is maintained through increased effort, supported by computational modeling, across cognitive and motor tasks.

This study investigates how hypnotic verbal suggestions for pain modulation are encoded in the brain and how individual suggestibility affects neural responses during pain processing.

This study investigates whether contralateral thermal heat pain affects corticospinal and intracortical excitability, finding no reduction and instead increased corticospinal excitability, with perceived effort linked to pain experience rather than neural inhibition.

This study uses fMRI to investigate how brain regions like the supplementary motor area and anterior midcingulate cortex contribute to effort perception during pain and task performance.

The paper identifies convergent and selective functional zones in the insula using fMRI data, revealing a hierarchical convergence architecture across pain, appetitive, aversive, and cognitive control domains.

This study uses fMRI to show that existing pain neurosignatures cannot predict facial pain expressions, introducing a new FEPS that specifically captures the brain response to nociceptive pain.

This study investigates how pain perception relates to prediction errors and learning, showing that unexpected pain increases subjective pain and physiological responses.

The paper uses EEG, machine learning, and multivariate statistics to identify neural features predicting hypnotic susceptibility, finding that aperiodic EEG activity at rest is the strongest predictor.

This meta-analysis examines the effect of pharmacologically blocking muscle afferents on perceived effort during exercise, finding mixed results depending on how effort was measured.

This study tracks dynamic decision-making in humans using low-dimensional neural oscillation states from MEG data, showing distinct roles for alpha and beta bands in choice commitment and motor execution.

This study examines how the aversive value of pain influences human decision-making in the context of monetary rewards and electric shocks.