Micro-affordance: the potentiation of components of action by seen objects.
It is suggested that seen objects potentiate a range of actions associated with them, irrespective of the intentions of the viewer. Evidence for this possibility is provided by the data from two experiments, both of which required a participant to make a binary motor response to an auditory stimulus...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 451 - 472 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 2000
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