Defying Food – How Distance Determines Monkeys’ Ability to Inhibit Reaching for Food

Objects, such as food, in the environment automatically activate and facilitate affordances, the possibilities for motoric movements in interaction with the objects. Previous research has shown that affordance activation is contingent upon the distance of the object with only proximal objects activa...

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Main Authors: Junghans, Astrid F., Sterck, Elisabeth H. M., Overduin de Vries, Anne, Evers, Catharine, De Ridder, Denise T. D.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757685/