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multimodal interactions: pain-touch  

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  • While injecting local anesthetic into a patient's gum, the dentist may grab the patient's cheek and shake it with his or her other hand. This greatly reduces the pain of the injection. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Multimodal Interactions: Pain-Touch]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GV96M31B-K

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