Eat Me If You Can: Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Distance Effect

Proximal objects provide affordances that activate the motor information involved in interacting with the objects. This effect has previously been shown for artifacts but not for natural objects, such as food. This study examined whether the sight of proximal food, compared to distant food activates...

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Main Authors: Junghans, Astrid F., Evers, Catharine, De Ridder, Denise T. D.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867504/