Grasping affordance judgments depend on the object emotional value

DiscussionOur findings suggest that the emotional value of objects modulates affordance judgments in a way that favors careful manipulation and minimal physical contact with aversive stimuli. Finally, we discuss how this affective aspect of our experience of objects overlaps with what affordances are conceptualized to be, calling for further reexamination of the relationship between affordances and emotions.
Source: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research