Object affordances tune observers' prior expectations about tool-use behaviors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Jacquet, Pierre O ^a,b   Chambon, Valérian ^c   Borghi, Anna M ^a,d   Tessari, Alessia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OBSERVER BIAS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; SELF EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROBABILITY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862645527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039629     Document Type: Article

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