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  1. Visual Perception of Moisture Is a Pathogen Detection Mechanism of the Behavioral Immune System.Kazunori Iwasa, Takanori Komatsu, Ayaka Kitamura & Yuta Sakamoto - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    The behavioral immune system (BIS) includes perceptual mechanisms for detecting cues of contamination. Former studies have indicated that moisture has a disgusting property. Therefore, moisture could be a target for detecting contamination cues by the BIS. We conducted two experiments to examine the psychophysical basis of moisture perception and clarify the relationship between the perception of moisture and the BIS. We assumed that the number of high luminance areas in a visual image provided optical information that would enable the visual (...)
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