concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: multimodal interactions: pain-touch

multimodal interactions: pain-touch
type: Concept
broader: skin and body senses
broader: sense interactions
definition: 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]

sense interactions
type: Concept
narrower: multimodal interactions: pain-touch

skin and body senses
type: Concept
narrower: multimodal interactions: pain-touch