How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had
a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which …

Affordances, ie the opportunity of actions offered by the environment, are one of the central
research topics for the theoretical perspectives that view cognition as emerging from the …

Previous work suggests that perception of an object automatically facilitates actions related
to object grasping and manipulation. Recently, the notion of automaticity has been …

Individuals with anxiety disorders frequently display heightened fear responses, even in
situations where there is no imminent danger. We hypothesize that these irrational fear …

Abstract The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative was established with the
goal of developing an alternative research classification to further research efforts in mental …

Whether motor inhibition impacts the motor interference effect of dangerous objects is
controversial. Previous studies have manipulated task type and found that dangerous …

Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies using the Go/Nogo task have indicated that
response inhibition is influenced by the arousal elicited by emotional stimuli, when those …

The outbreak of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it have likely impacted our daily lives,
including how we interact with objects. This online study aimed to develop and test a task to …

Previous research has suggested that the motor interference effect of dangerous objects
may originate from danger evaluations rather than direct response inhibition, as evidenced …

Existing research has indicated that dangerous objects may conflict with an individual's
prepared motor actions and thus slow responses. This phenomenon is called the motor …