Action priming by briefly presented objects.

Mike Tucker*, Rob Ellis

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Three experiments investigated how visual objects prime the actions they afford. The principal concern was whether such visuomotor priming depends upon a concurrent visual input--as would be expected if it is mediated by on-line dorsal system processes. Experiment 1 showed there to be essentially identical advantages for making afforded over non-afforded responses when these were made to objects still in view and following brief (30 or 50 ms) object exposures that were backward masked. Experiment 2 showed that affordance effects were also unaffected by stimulus degradation. Finally, Experiment 3 showed there to be statistically equal effects from images of objects and their names. The results suggest that an active object representation is sufficient to generate affordance compatibility effects based on associated actions, whether or not the object is concurrently visible.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)185-203
Number of pages0
JournalActa Psychol (Amst)
Volume116
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2004

Keywords

  • Humans
  • Perceptual Masking
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Reaction Time
  • Visual Perception

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