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ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2023

Affordances and curvature preference: The case of real objects and spaces.

Zakaria Djebbara, Saleh Kalantari

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Article in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zakaria DjebbaraDepartment of Architecture, Design, Media, and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2370-6092
Saleh KalantariDepartment of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chuquichambi and colleagues recently questioned the prevailing belief that a universal human visual preference exists for curved shapes and lines. Their comprehensive meta-analysis demonstrated that while curvature preference is widespread, it is not universally constant or invariant. By revisiting their dataset, we made an intriguing discovery: a negative relationship between curvature preference and an object's "affordances." Taking an embodiment perspective into account, we propose an explanation for this phenomenon, suggesting that the diminished curvature preference in objects with abundant affordances can be understood through the lens of embodied cognition.

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CognitionSpace PerceptionHumansMeta-Analysis as Topicaffordancescurvature preferenceneuroaestheticsvirtual reality

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