Mapping the identity of a viewed hand in the motor system: Evidence from stimulus–response compatibility.

Vainio, Lari; Mustonen, Terhi

doi:10.1037/a0021432

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“…They argued that actions associated with briefly presented objects were sup pressed because they were invalid action targets. Vainio and Mustonen (2011) reported a similar effect where pictures of hands produced inverse priming when they were presented briefly. Bub & Masson (2012) used a paradigm that was quite different from ours in several ways: (a) partici pants made grasping responses that were cued by photographs of those responses; (b) object names were presented separately as distractors; (c) the timecourse was experimentally manipulated by adjusting the onset time of the object names relative to the response cue, rather than examined via quartiles in a post hoc analysis; and (d) the inverse priming effect was only observed in situations where participants made volumetric grasps, and not when they made functional grasps.…”

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Limits on action priming by pictures of objects.

Yu¹,

Abrams²,

Zacks³

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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When does looking at an object prime actions associated with using it, and what aspects of those actions are primed? We examined whether viewing manmade objects with handles would selectively facilitate responses for the hand closest to the handle, attempting to replicate a study reported by Tucker and Ellis (1998). We also examined whether the hypothesized action priming effects depended upon the response hand's proximity to an object. In 7 experiments, participants made judgments about whether pictured objects were manmade or natural or whether the objects were upright or inverted. They responded by pressing buttons located either on the same or opposite side as the objects' handles, at variable distances. Action priming was observed only when participants were explicitly instructed to imagine picking up the pictured objects while making their judgments; the data provide no evidence for task-general automatic priming of lateralized responses by object handles. These data indicate that visually encoding an object activates spatially localized action representations only under special circumstances.

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confidence: 79%

Limits on action priming by pictures of objects.

Yu¹,

Abrams²,

Zacks³

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…This might indicate that when the spatial compatibility effect due to symbolic/spatial feature overlap emerges, no effector-based effect due to anatomical feature overlap emerges. However, recent studies have shown that time is needed for the effects related to body parts to develop (Catmur and Heyes, 2011; Vainio and Mustonen, 2011). Therefore, the brief presentation of the pointing hand stimulus might be responsible for the absence of the effector priming effect in Experiment 1.…”

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“…Recent studies have shown that left/right anatomical identity of the presented hand stimulus affects responses using the left or right hand (Ottoboni et al, 2005; Vainio and Mustonen, 2011). …”

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Pointing Hand Stimuli Induce Spatial Compatibility Effects and Effector Priming

Nishimura¹,

Michimata²

2013

Front. Psychol.

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The present study investigated the automatic influence of perceiving a picture that indicates other’s action on one’s own task performance in terms of spatial compatibility and effector priming. Participants pressed left and right buttons with their left and right hands respectively, depending on the color of a central dot target. Preceding the target, a left or right hand stimulus (pointing either to the left or right with the index or little finger) was presented. In Experiment 1, with brief presentation of the pointing hand, a spatial compatibility effect was observed: responses were faster when the direction of the pointed finger and the response position were spatially congruent than when incongruent. The spatial compatibility effect was larger for the pointing index finger stimulus compared to the pointing little finger stimulus. Experiment 2 employed longer duration of the pointing hand stimuli. In addition to the spatial compatibility effect for the pointing index finger, the effector priming effect was observed: responses were faster when the anatomical left/right identity of the pointing and response hands matched than when the pointing and response hands differed in left/right identity. The results indicate that with sufficient processing time, both spatial/symbolic and anatomical features of a static body part implying another’s action simultaneously influence different aspects of the perceiver’s own action. Hierarchical coding, according to which an anatomical code is used only when a spatial code is unavailable, may not be applicable if stimuli as well as responses contain anatomical features.

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“…Vainio and colleagues have recently reported that the positive stimulus-response compatibility effects usually shown in object affordance tasks can become negative if the object stimulus is presented briefly and then removed (e.g., Vainio, 2009; Vainio et al, 2011; see also Vainio and Mustonen, 2011). …”

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Automatic motor activation in the executive control of action

McBride¹,

Boy²,

Husain³

et al. 2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Although executive control and automatic behavior have often been considered separate and distinct processes, there is strong emerging and convergent evidence that they may in fact be intricately interlinked. In this review, we draw together evidence showing that visual stimuli cause automatic and unconscious motor activation, and how this in turn has implications for executive control. We discuss object affordances, alien limb syndrome, the visual grasp reflex, subliminal priming, and subliminal triggering of attentional orienting. Consideration of these findings suggests automatic motor activation might form an intrinsic part of all behavior, rather than being categorically different from voluntary actions.

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Mapping the identity of a viewed hand in the motor system: Evidence from stimulus–response compatibility.

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

Limits on action priming by pictures of objects.

Limits on action priming by pictures of objects.

Pointing Hand Stimuli Induce Spatial Compatibility Effects and Effector Priming

Automatic motor activation in the executive control of action

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