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Manual Experience Shapes Object Representations
Psychological science, v 24(6), pp 909-919
01 Jun 2013
PMID: 23633520
Abstract
How do people represent object meaning? It is now uncontentious that thinking about manipulable objects (e.g., pencils) activates brain regions underlying action. But is this activation part of the meaning of these objects, or is it merely incidental? The research we report here shows that when the hands are engaged in a task involving motions that are incompatible with those used to interact with frequently manipulated objects, it is more difficult to think about those objectsbut not harder to think about infrequently manipulated objects (e.g., bookcases). Critically, the amount of manual experience with the object determines the amount of interference. These findings show that brain activity underlying manual action is part of, not peripheral to, the representation of frequently manipulated objects. Further, they suggest that people's ability to think about an object changes dynamically on the basis of the match between their (experience-based) mental representation of its meaning and whatever they are doing at that moment.
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- Title
- Manual Experience Shapes Object Representations
- Creators
- Eiling Yee - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and LanguageEvangelia G. Chrysikou - University of KansasEsther Hoffman - Cornell UniversitySharon L. Thompson-Schill - University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Psychological science, v 24(6), pp 909-919
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- R01MH70850; R01 MH070850 / NIMH NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01MH070850 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 EY021717 / NEI NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Eye Institute (NEI) R01EY021717 / NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Eye Institute (NEI)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000320026000011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84878810116
- Other Identifier
- 991019176796904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary