Knowing your nose better than your thumb: measures of over-grasp reveal that face-parts are special for grasping.
Typically, when a grasping response is made, the hand opens wider than the target object. We show that this "over-grasp" response is reduced when we reach to parts of our own face, relative to when we reach to other body parts or to neutral objects. This is not due to reaching to different...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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