The impact of social context and language comprehension on behaviour: a kinematic investigation.

We investigated whether and how comprehending sentences that describe a social context influences our motor behaviour. Our stimuli were sentences that referred to objects having different connotations (e.g., attractive/ugly vs. smooth/prickly) and that could be directed towards the self or towards &...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Claudia Gianelli, Luisa Lugli, Giulia Baroni, Roberto Nicoletti, Anna M Borghi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3869935?pdf=render