Defying food- How distance determines monkeys’ ability to inhibit reaching for food -

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: Astrid Franziska Junghans, Elisabeth eSterck, Anne eOverduin de Vries, Catharine eEvers, Denise eDe Ridder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Primates
inhibition
Embodied Cognition
affordances
eating behavior
Environmental influence
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00158/full

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