Published: June 15, 2016

Tor WagerCU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Tor Wager (Cognitive) was in the news as a result of some recent research demonstrating that the vicarious perception of pain is represented in different neural pathways compared to experiencing pain oneself. The former process is a proactive, cognitive one, rather than an automatic one. Read the Daily Camera article, the CU press release, or read the original research paper, published in the journal eLIFE.