ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Gravity modulates behaviour control strategy.
Article in Experimental brain research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Mental gravity as a translational framework for mental health promotion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Invariant representations in abstract concept grounding - the physical world in grounded cognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Mental Gravity: Depression as Spacetime Curvature of the Self, Mind, and Brain.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human behaviour is a trade-off between exploitation of familiar resources and exploration of new ones. In a challenging environment-such as outer space-making the correct decision is vital. On Earth, gravity is always there, and is an important reference for behaviour. Thus, altered gravitational signals may affect behaviour control strategies. Here, we investigated whether changing the body's orientation to the gravitational vector would modulate the balance between routine and novel behaviour. Participants completed a random number generation task while upright or supine. We found decreased randomness when participants were supine. In particular, the degree of equiprobability of pairs of consecutive responses was reduced in the supine orientation. Online gravitational signals may shape the balance between exploitation and exploration, in favour of more stereotyped and routine responses.
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