Evocation of functional and volumetric gestural knowledge by objects and words

Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael E. J.; Cree, George S.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.010

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“…Tucker and Ellis (2004) demonstrated that showing a graspable object's name produced a congruency effect on manual responses similar to the one commonly registered in visual object categorization studies. Similar effects were reported in Bub, Masson, and Cree (2008) for both functional (grasping) and volumetric (lifting) actions (see also Lindemann et al, 2006). Interestingly, while elicitation of affordance effects from observing objects may be bound by the limits of reachable space, objects' names can act as activation cues to stimulus-response compatibility effects for objects within and outside of reachable space (Ferri et al, 2011).…”

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Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects

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Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects

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“…Previous studies have indicated that action information about objects is automatically activated when objects are perceived (e.g. Bub, Masson, & Cree, 2008) and that an important aspect of this knowledge consists of the object's prototypical end locations (van Elk, van Schie, & Bekkering, 2009). …”

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Learning to use novel objects: A training study on the acquisition of novel action representations

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Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tMany studies have suggested that the motor system is organized in a hierarchical fashion, around the prototypical end location associated with using objects. However, most studies supporting the hierarchical view have used well-known actions and objects that are highly over-learned. Accordingly, at present it is unclear if the hierarchical principle applies to learning the use of novel objects as well. In the present study we found that when learning to use a novel object subjects acquired an action representation of the end location associated with using the object, as evidenced by slower responses in an action observation task, when the object was presented at an incorrect end location. By showing the importance of knowledge about end locations when learning to use a novel object, the present study suggests that end locations are a fundamental organizing feature of the human motor system.

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“…These sensorimotor lexical representations have been shown to be highly sensitive to the way in which an object is used functionally. For example, although both the words cup and bookend denote man-made tools that can be easily hand-held, cup elicits greater levels of activation in action-relevant areas than bookend, presumably because one must move a cup continuously (in contrast to a bookend) to use it functionally (Rueschemeyer et al, in press; see also Bub, Masson, & Cree, 2008;Masson, Bub, & Newton-Taylor, 2008 for converging behavioral evidence). These results show that how an object is typically manipulated is critical in determining how the lexical representation of the object is processed in the brain, and further that embodied lexical representations are quite specific in the type of experiential information they reflect.…”

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Body schematics: On the role of the body schema in embodied lexical–semantic representations

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a b s t r a c tWords denoting manipulable objects activate sensorimotor brain areas, likely reflecting action experience with the denoted objects. In particular, these sensorimotor lexical representations have been found to reflect the way in which an object is used. In the current paper we present data from two experiments (one behavioral and one neuroimaging) in which we investigate whether body schema information, putatively necessary for interacting with functional objects, is also recruited during lexical processing. To this end, we presented participants with words denoting objects that are typically brought towards or away from the body (e.g., cup or key, respectively). We hypothesized that objects typically brought to a location on the body (e.g., cup) are relatively more reliant on body schema representations, since the final goal location of the cup (i.e., the mouth) is represented primarily through posture and body coordinates. In contrast, objects typically brought to a location away from the body (e.g., key) are relatively more dependent on visuo-spatial representations, since the final goal location of the key (i.e., a keyhole) is perceived visually. The behavioral study showed that prior planning of a movement along an axis towards and away from the body facilitates processing of words with a congruent action semantic feature (i.e., preparation of movement towards the body facilitates processing of cup.). In an fMRI study we showed that words denoting objects brought towards the body engage the resources of brain areas involved in the processing information about human bodies (i.e., the extra-striate body area, middle occipital gyrus and inferior parietal lobe) relatively more than words denoting objects typically brought away from the body. The results provide converging evidence that body schema are implicitly activated in processing lexical information.

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Evocation of functional and volumetric gestural knowledge by objects and words

Cited by 214 publications

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Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects

Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects

Learning to use novel objects: A training study on the acquisition of novel action representations

Body schematics: On the role of the body schema in embodied lexical–semantic representations

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