Thursday, 22 November 2012

The intensity at which a stimulus e.g., heat, pressure begins to evoke pain is the threshold intensity. So, if a hotplate on a person's skin begins to hurt at 42°C, then that is the pain threshold temperature for that bit of skin at that time. 42°C is not the pain threshold, it is the temperature at which the pain threshold was crossed


18.50, 22.11.12. Wiki 

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