Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification

Filliter, Jillian H.; McMullen, Patricia A.; Westwood, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2004.08.022

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“…Such a difference was not found with visual pictures since the peak of the LPC for living items was not significantly earlier than that detected for than non-living items. However, these results are consistent with our own reaction time data which demonstrate that living items are selected earlier than non-living items and with the results of other studies in which living items were identified prior to non-living items in both modalities in a picture-word matching task e.g., (Fuggetta et al, 2009) when familiarity, manipulability and level of identification are controlled for (Filliter et al, 2005). …”

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Spatial and temporal features of superordinate semantic processing studied with fMRI and EEG

Costanzo

McArdle

Swett

et al. 2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The relationships between the anatomical representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain and the timing of neurophysiological mechanisms involved in manipulating such information remain unclear. This is the case for superordinate semantic categorization—the extraction of general features shared by broad classes of exemplars (e.g., living vs. non-living semantic categories). We proposed that, because of the abstract nature of this information, input from diverse input modalities (visual or auditory, lexical or non-lexical) should converge and be processed in the same regions of the brain, at similar time scales during superordinate categorization—specifically in a network of heteromodal regions, and late in the course of the categorization process. In order to test this hypothesis, we utilized electroencephalography and event related potentials (EEG/ERP) with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize subjects' responses as they made superordinate categorical decisions (living vs. non-living) about objects presented as visual pictures or auditory words. Our results reveal that, consistent with our hypothesis, during the course of superordinate categorization, information provided by these diverse inputs appears to converge in both time and space: fMRI showed that heteromodal areas of the parietal and temporal cortices are active during categorization of both classes of stimuli. The ERP results suggest that superordinate categorization is reflected as a late positive component (LPC) with a parietal distribution and long latencies for both stimulus types. Within the areas and times in which modality independent responses were identified, some differences between living and non-living categories were observed, with a more widespread spatial extent and longer latency responses for categorization of non-living items.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Spatial and temporal features of superordinate semantic processing studied with fMRI and EEG

Costanzo

McArdle

Swett

et al. 2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…On most accounts of semantic memory, these action features of objects are represented separately from other kinds of semantic features, like color, shape, and typical location (e.g., Allport, 1985; Warrington and McCarthy, 1987; McRae et al, 1997; Barsalou, 1999). Furthermore, the presence of action features for some objects may drive the broad differentiation between manipulable and non-manipulable objects that is observed both in behavioral (e.g., Filliter et al, 2005; Siakaluk et al, 2008) and neuroimaging (see Beauchamp and Martin, 2007 for a review) studies. Thus, for manipulable artifacts, thematic relationships between objects related by virtue of a common action (e.g., hammer/nail) may be more salient than relationships between objects that merely occur within the same event without directly interacting (e.g., hammer and screw co-occur in a “carpentry” event).…”

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The role of action representations in thematic object relations

Tsagkaridis

Watson

Jax

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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A number of studies have explored the role of associative/event-based (thematic) and categorical (taxonomic) relations in the organization of object representations. Recent evidence suggests that thematic information may be particularly important in determining relationships between manipulable artifacts. However, although sensorimotor information is on many accounts an important component of manipulable artifact representations, little is known about the role that action may play during the processing of semantic relationships (particularly thematic relationships) between multiple objects. In this study, we assessed healthy and left hemisphere stroke participants to explore three questions relevant to object relationship processing. First, we assessed whether participants tended to favor thematic relations including action (Th+A, e.g., wine bottle—corkscrew), thematic relationships without action (Th-A, e.g., wine bottle—cheese), or taxonomic relationships (Tax, e.g., wine bottle—water bottle) when choosing between them in an association judgment task with manipulable artifacts. Second, we assessed whether the underlying constructs of event relatedness, action relatedness, and categorical relatedness determined the choices that participants made. Third, we assessed the hypothesis that degraded action knowledge and/or damage to temporo-parietal cortex, a region of the brain associated with the representation of action knowledge, would reduce the influence of action on the choice task. Experiment 1 showed that explicit ratings of event, action, and categorical relatedness were differentially predictive of healthy participants' choices, with action relatedness determining choices between Th+A and Th-A associations above and beyond event and categorical ratings. Experiment 2 focused more specifically on these Th+A vs. Th-A choices and demonstrated that participants with left temporo-parietal lesions, a brain region known to be involved in sensorimotor processing, were less likely than controls and tended to be less likely than patients with lesions sparing that region to use action relatedness in determining their choices. These data indicate that action knowledge plays a critical role in processing of thematic relations for manipulable artifacts.

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“…Moreover, manipulability could be a confounded factor when comparing natural (e.g., animals) and artifact (e.g., tools or household items) concepts. Filliter, McMullen, and Westwood (2005) demonstrated that when object domain and object manipulability were specifically dissociated, object identification speed depended on object manipulability. Thus, although object manipulability appears to be a decisive factor in adult conceptual processing, the distinction between manipulable and nonmanipulable objects has never been explored in research on conceptual development.…”

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Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing

Kalénine

Bonthoux

2008

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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A large body of evidence from developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology supports the idea that there are different kinds of concepts. Artifact concepts would be mostly characterized by function, whereas natural kinds would be predominantly organized around perceptual information. Numerous studies in children show that functional similarities drive induction, name generalization, and categorization for artifacts from

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Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification

Cited by 46 publications

References 10 publications

Spatial and temporal features of superordinate semantic processing studied with fMRI and EEG

Spatial and temporal features of superordinate semantic processing studied with fMRI and EEG

The role of action representations in thematic object relations

Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing

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