Similarly, your ears input 100,000 bits per second. About 30 of those bits make it through to your higher auditory processing centers.
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Replying to @pookleblinky
Meanwhile pain, of both Aδ and C fiber transmission, is essentially unfiltered. You can perceive damage done to a single nociceptor.
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Replying to @pookleblinky
Your conscious awareness runs at about 16 bits per second. Normally, vision takes up almost half that.
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Pain dominates all other sense channels, numerically and neurologically. It can take up damn near the full stream.
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Chronic pain decimates working memory, destroys speech comprehension, interferes with visual processing & emotional expression.
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no clear evidence of pain affecting working memory - only a handful of studies observed this. Others find that it motivates
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only 11-35% of ppl with chronic pain report cognitive interference. Still murky. Likely related to poor tests?
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I have intereference with a lot of cognitive functions with my migraines, but I'm aware that's perhaps diff.
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that's another tricky ones. Trigeminal pains seem to have more cog effects. Perhaps related to face being special?
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'@massihmoayedi @pookleblinky my face is definitely specialpic.twitter.com/nAwhQt3ovl
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