Perceiving object dangerousness: An escape from pain?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 457-466

  Anelli, Filomena ^a   Ranzini, Mariagrazia ^b   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Borghi, Anna M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affordances; Canonical neurons; Dangerous objects; Embodied cognition; Graspability; Line bisection task; Motor simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892822627     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3577-2     Document Type: Article

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