Do hands attract attention?

Morrisey, Marcus Neil; Rutherford, M. D.

doi:10.1080/13506285.2013.817495

Cited by 9 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 49 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Moreover, while 13 out of the 16 infants in the upright condition had a mean preference for the novel hand that was above chance (binomial p = .01), only 8 out of 16 infants in the inverted condition had a mean preference for the novel hand that was above chance (binomial p = .60). Thus, similar to findings with adults (Morrisey & Rutherford, 2013), infants exhibited an inversion effect, with superior performance on upright than on inverted images.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Thus, like the adult participants in Morrisey and Rutherford (2013), infants exhibited an inversion effect by displaying a preference in the upright condition but not in the inverted condition. This inversion effect suggests that infants did not rely on low-level features to exhibit a preference in the upright condition.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Thus, in Experiment 1, we tested a separate group of infants with inverted versions of the images used in the upright condition. Morrisey and Rutherford (2013) found that adults exhibit an inversion effect when tested on hands, suggesting that their representation of hands includes a specific orientation. However, as noted by Morrisey and Rutherford (2013), unlike faces and bodies, hands do not necessarily have a canonical top-bottom orientation because they are seen and function at various angles.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Morrisey and Rutherford (2013) found that adults exhibit an inversion effect when tested on hands, suggesting that their representation of hands includes a specific orientation. However, as noted by Morrisey and Rutherford (2013), unlike faces and bodies, hands do not necessarily have a canonical top-bottom orientation because they are seen and function at various angles. Thus, it is not possible to predict a priori whether or not infants would exhibit an inversion effect with hands.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Experimental evidence of structural representation of hands in early infancy

Jubran

White

Chroust

et al. 2018

International Journal of Behavioral Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Hands convey important social information, such as an individual’s emotions, goals, and desires, are used to direct attention through pointing, and are a major organ for haptic perception. However, very little is known about infants’ representation of human hands. In Experiment 1, infants tested in a familiarization/novelty preference task discriminated between images of intact hands and ones that contained first-order structure distortions (i.e., with locations of fingers altered to result in an unnatural configuration). In Experiment 2, infants tested in a spontaneous preference task exhibited a preference for scrambled hand images over intact images, indicating that 3.5-month-olds have gained sufficient sensitivity to the configural properties of hands to discriminate between intact versus scrambled images without any training in the laboratory. In both procedures, infants’ performance was disrupted by inversion of images, suggesting that infants’ performance in the upright conditions was not based on low-level features. These results indicate that sensitivity to the structure of hands develops early in life. This early development may lay the foundation for the development of the functional use of hand information for social communication.

show abstract

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Experimental evidence of structural representation of hands in early infancy

Jubran

White

Chroust

et al. 2018

International Journal of Behavioral Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Silhouettes of human figures captured more awareness than silhouettes of non‐human familiar objects (Downing, Bray, Rogers, & Childs, ). Morrisey and Rutherford () reported an attentional hand advantage in a probe‐dot detection task. They presented a pair of object pictures side by side, for example, hand and toaster, for 500 ms.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Inhibition of Return Decays Rapidly when Familiar Objects are Used

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Visual search is supported by various components. Inhibition of return (IOR) is a mechanism by which orienting to a previously attended location or object is inhibited. In two experiments, we examined whether categories of real-life objects modify IOR. In Experiment 1, familiar objects (faces, hands, feet, chairs, and flowers) and a nonsense control object (a square) were presented as cues and participants were asked to detect a target presented either in a cued or uncued position. Body parts were examined since they have often been shown to influence visual selective attention. Results showed substantial IOR irrespective of cue object category. However, IOR decreased very rapidly, even in trials with a control cue. This atypical time course was not observed when only the control cue was used (Experiment 2). We concluded that the presence of various familiar objects in Experiment 1 acted as a context and modified observers' attentional sets. The results suggest that IOR in real-life scenes with familiar objects is different from IOR observed in typical experimental settings.

show abstract

Do already grasped objects activate motor affordances?

Iani

Ferraro

Maiorana

et al. 2018

Psychological Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigated whether in a stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) task affordance effects in response to picture of graspable objects emerge when these objects appear as already grasped. It also assessed whether the observed effects could be explained as due to spatial compatibility between the most salient part in the object/display and the hand of response rather than to action potentiation. To this aim, we conducted three behavioural experiments in which participants were required to discriminate the vertical orientation (upright vs. inverted) of an object presented in the centre of the screen, while ignoring the right-left orientation of its handle. The object could be presented alone, as already grasped, as partially masked (Experiment 1) or with a human hand close to its graspable side (Experiment 2). In addition, to assess the role of perceptual salience, the object could be presented with a human hand or a non-biological (a geometrical shape) distractor located opposite to the object's graspable side. Results showed faster responses when the object's handle was located on the same side of the responding hand with a larger effect when upright objects were shown as already grasped (Experiment 1) or when a hand was displayed close to its handle (Experiment 2), and a smaller reversed effect when the hand or the geometrical shape was located opposite to the handled side (Experiment 3). We interpreted these findings as indicating that handle orientation effects emerging in SRC tasks may result from the interplay between motor affordance and spatial compatibility mechanisms.

show abstract

Do hands attract attention?

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Experimental evidence of structural representation of hands in early infancy

Experimental evidence of structural representation of hands in early infancy

Inhibition of Return Decays Rapidly when Familiar Objects are Used

Do already grasped objects activate motor affordances?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About