“…This effect was employed to investigate the affordance activation hypothesis, according to which the perception of an object tool, beyond the extraction of mere perceptual features such as color, shape, size, and location orientation also activate actions which are consistent with its identity and its canonical use (e.g., Bub & Masson, 2010;Goslin, Dixon, Fischer, Cangelosi, & Ellis, 2012;Masson, Bub, & Breuer, 2011;Pellicano, Iani, Borghi, Rubichi, & Nicoletti, 2010b). According to this view, a perceived object activates appropriate grasping gestures whenever its identity and its functional meaning are recognized by the perceiver: whether these gestures will involve the left or the right hand will depend on the left-or rightward orientations of the object handle (variable affordances; see Borghi & Riggio, 2015;Pellicano, Thill, Ziemke, & Binkofski, 2011, see also Pellicano, Borghi, & Binkofski, 2017a). As a result, responses to a graspable object become faster and more accurate when the responding hand is aligned with its left-or rightward jutting handle, compared to when it is not.…”