Colour-induced relationship between affect and reaching kinematics during a goal-directed aiming task

A link between affect and action has been supported by the discovery that threat information is prioritized through an action-centred pathway—the dorsal visual stream. Magnocellular afferents, which originate from the retina and project to dorsal stream structures, are suppressed by exposure to diffuse red light, which diminishes humans’ perception of threat-based images. In order to explore the role of colour in the relationship between affect …