%0 Journal Article
%T Bodily action penetrates affective perception
%A Carlo Fantoni
%A Sara Rigutti
%A Walter Gerbino
%J Archive of "PeerJ".
%D 2016
%R 10.7717/peerj.1677
%X Fantoni & Gerbino (2014) showed that subtle postural shifts associated with reaching can have a strong hedonic impact and affect how actors experience facial expressions of emotion. Using a novel Motor Action Mood Induction Procedure (MAMIP), they found consistent congruency effects in participants who performed a facial emotion identification task after a sequence of visually-guided reaches: a face perceived as neutral in a baseline condition appeared slightly happy after comfortable actions and slightly angry after uncomfortable actions. However, skeptics about the penetrability of perception (Zeimbekis & Raftopoulos, 2015) would consider such evidence insufficient to demonstrate that observer¡¯s internal states induced by action comfort/discomfort affect perception in a top-down fashion. The action-modulated mood might have produced a back-end memory effect capable of affecting post-perceptual and decision processing, but not front-end perception
%K Mood
%K Face perception
%K Perception
%K Penetrability
%K Emotion
%K Action
%K Induction
%K Motor
%K Adaptation
%K Embodied
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756752/