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pain: physiological mechanisms  

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  • In the late 1960s, John F. Hahn, a sensory gener-alist in the tradition of Henri Piéron and Frank Geldard, taught that pain is not only a sensation in search of a stimulus, but in search of a receptor as well. In the years since those discussions, understanding of the mapping of stimulus on receptor to sensation has not changed much. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Pain: Physiological Mechanisms]

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