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SUBMITTER: Ackerman JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3005631 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ackerman Joshua M JM Nocera Christopher C CC Bargh John A JA
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100601 5986
Touch is both the first sense to develop and a critical means of information acquisition and environmental manipulation. Physical touch experiences may create an ontological scaffold for the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal conceptual and metaphorical knowledge, as well as a springboard for the application of this knowledge. In six experiments, holding heavy or light clipboards, solving rough or smooth puzzles, and touching hard or soft objects nonconsciously influenced impressions ...[more]