Pathogen stress heightens sensorimotor dimensions in the human collective semantic space

Abstract Infectious diseases have been major causes of death throughout human history and are assumed to broadly affect human psychology. However, whether and how conceptual processing, an internal world model central to various cognitive processes, adapts to such salient stress variables remains la...

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Main Authors: Ze Fu, Huimin Chen, Zhan Liu, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchao Bi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Communications Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00183-5