Priming of reach and grasp actions by handled objects.

Masson, Michael E. J.; Bub, Daniel N.; Breuer, Andreas

doi:10.1037/a0023509

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“…Viewing tools can modulate reaction times to initiate subsequent actions known as behavioral priming. Critically, these effects have been shown to reflect access to information about predicted tool-specific action outcomes according to previous knowledge of their common use (Masson et al, 2011). These findings coincide nicely with our interpretation of the current results.…”

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“…Simply viewing pictures of tools was found to activate left parietofrontal areas putatively important for actual tool use (Chao and Martin, 2000;Valyear et al, 2007) and to affect response times to initiate real actions according to affordances defined by both structural and functional tool properties (Bub et al, 2003;Bub et al, 2008). More recently, it was shown that affordance specification for tools includes information about predicted outcomes of actions in accordance with their conventional use (Masson et al, 2011), and reaction times to pantomime tool use with tools in hand are facilitated when preceded by passive viewing of real tools . These findings support the hypothesis that affordance specification in humans includes access to learned functional properties of objects based on previous experience.…”

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fMRI Repetition Suppression for Familiar But Not Arbitrary Actions with Tools

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For humans, daily life is characterized by routine interaction with many different tools for which corresponding actions are specified and performed according to well-learned procedures. The current study used functional MRI (fMRI) repetition suppression (RS) to identify brain areas underlying the transformation of visually defined tool properties to corresponding motor programs for conventional use. Before grasping and demonstrating how to use a specific tool, participants passively viewed either the same (repeated) tool or a different (non-repeated) tool. Repetition of tools led to reduced fMRI signals (RS) within a selective network of parietal and premotor areas. Comparison with newly learned, arbitrarily defined control actions revealed specificity of RS for tool use, thought to reflect differences in the extent of previous sensorimotor experience. The findings indicate that familiar tools are visually represented within the same sensorimotor areas underlying their dexterous use according to learned properties defined by previous experience. This interpretation resonates with the broader concept of affordance specification considered fundamental to action planning and execution whereby action-relevant object properties (affordances) are visually represented in sensorimotor areas. The current findings extend this view to reveal that affordance specification in humans includes learned object properties defined by previous sensorimotor experience. From an evolutionary perspective, the neural mechanisms identified in the current study offer clear survival advantage, providing fast efficient transformation of visual information to appropriate motor responses based on previous experience.

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fMRI Repetition Suppression for Familiar But Not Arbitrary Actions with Tools

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“…Additionally, measuring three-dimensional movement trajectories, Till et al (2014) have reported that a visually presented manipu lable objects affect the online trajectories of reaching and grasping, biasing them in ways that are compatible with the presented object. Unlike the paradigms using button presses, these types of results do provide support for the notion the visual presentation of a manipulable object invokes sensorimotor simulations (see also Masson et al, 2011). While measuring specific grasp apertures and movement trajectories has promise for supporting more nuanced predictions of EC, and while these measures a not likely explained by spatial attentional biases, they still suffer from many of the criticisms of other research in EC.…”

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“…This type of result is consistent with a body of research that suggests a direct coupling between object perception and action. In a more specific demonstration of the coupling between object perception and action, Masson, Bub, and Breuer (2011) showed that manual actions toward objects are facilitated by the presentation of visual objects whose handles are orientated congruently with the targets. For example, visually presenting a picture of a beer mug with its handle oriented vertically facilitated vertical grasps to a grasping apparatus.…”

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Accessing embodied object representations from vision: A review.

Matheson¹,

White²,

McMullen³

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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Theories of embodied cognition (EC) propose that object concepts are represented by reactivations of sensorimotor experiences of different objects. Abundant research from linguistic paradigms provides support for the notion that sensorimotor simulations are involved in cognitive tasks like comprehension. However, it is unclear whether object concepts, as accessed from the visual presentation of objects, are embodied. In the present article we review a large body of visual cognitive research that addresses 5 main predictions of the theory of EC. First, EC accounts predict that visual presentation of manipulable objects, but not nonmanipulable objects, should activate motor representations. Second, EC predicts that sensorimotor activity is necessary to perform visual-cognitive tasks such as object naming. Third, EC posits the existence of distinct neural ensembles that integrate information from action and vision. Fourth, EC predicts that relationships between visual and motor activity change throughout development. Fifth, EC predicts that the visual presentation of objects or actions should prime performance cross-modally. We summarize findings from neuroimaging, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, development, and behavioral paradigms. We show that while much of the research published so far demonstrates that there is a relationship between visual and motoric representations, there is no evidence supporting a strong form of EC. We conclude that sensorimotor simulations may not be required to perform visual cognitive tasks and highlight a number of directions for future research that could provide strong support for EC in visual cognitive paradigms.

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“…Additionally, damage to regions of this network leads to ideomotor apraxia, characterized by disrupted tool usage but spared recognition (Haaland et al 2000;Johnson-Frey 2004). Finally, behavioral evidence suggests that simply viewing pictures of objects invokes motor representations of actions that those object afford (Grezes et al 2003;Humphreys et al 2004;Masson et al 2011;Tucker and Ellis 1998).…”

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The representation of tool and non-tool object information in the human intraparietal sulcus

Mruczek

Loga

Kästner

2013

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Mruczek RE, von Loga IS, Kastner S. The representation of tool and non-tool object information in the human intraparietal sulcus. J Neurophysiol 109: 2883-2896, 2013. First published March 27, 2013 doi:10.1152/jn.00658.2012.-Humans have an amazing ability to quickly and efficiently recognize and interact with visual objects in their environment. The underlying neural processes supporting this ability have been mainly explored in the ventral visual stream. However, the dorsal stream has been proposed to play a critical role in guiding object-directed actions. This hypothesis is supported by recent neuroimaging studies that have identified object-selective and tool-related activity in human parietal cortex. In the present study, we sought to delineate tool-related information in the anterior portions of the human intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and relate it to recently identified motor-defined and topographic regions of interest (ROIs) using functional MRI in individual subjects. Consistent with previous reports, viewing pictures of tools compared with pictures of animals led to a higher blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) response in the left anterior IPS. For every subject, this activation was located lateral, anterior, and inferior to topographic area IPS5 and lateral and inferior to a motor-defined human parietal grasp region (hPGR). In a separate experiment, subjects viewed pictures of tools, animals, graspable (non-tool) objects, and scrambled objects. An ROI-based time-course analysis showed that tools evoked a stronger BOLD response than animals throughout topographic regions of the left IPS. Additionally, graspable objects evoked stronger responses than animals, equal to responses to tools, in posterior regions and weaker responses than tools, equal to responses to animals, in anterior regions. Thus the left anterior tool-specific region may integrate visual information encoding graspable features of objects from more posterior portions of the IPS with experiential knowledge of object use and function to guide actions.posterior parietal cortex; tools; visuomotor; visual-motor transformation; functional magnetic resonance imaging THE PRIMATE VISUAL SYSTEM is grossly divided into ventral and dorsal pathways (Ungerleider and Mishkin 1982), traditionally associated with object recognition and spatial cognition, respectively. However, recent neurophysiological (e.g., Sereno and Maunsell 1998) and neuroimaging (e.g., Konen and Kastner 2008b) studies have identified object-selective neural representations in regions of the dorsal pathway. Goodale and Milner (1992) proposed that the two parallel pathways serve different behavioral goals, with the ventral stream being important for perception and recognition and the dorsal stream being important for action guidance. Consistent with this hypothesis, neuroimaging studies have shown that viewing pictures of tools, which have strong and specific action asso-

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Priming of reach and grasp actions by handled objects.

Cited by 65 publications

References 67 publications

fMRI Repetition Suppression for Familiar But Not Arbitrary Actions with Tools

fMRI Repetition Suppression for Familiar But Not Arbitrary Actions with Tools

Accessing embodied object representations from vision: A review.

The representation of tool and non-tool object information in the human intraparietal sulcus

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