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Mike Tucker1, Rob Ellis

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK. mrltucker@plymouth.ac.uk

Acta Psychologica
|May 26, 2004
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Visual objects prime actions, but this effect does not require ongoing visual input. Even brief or degraded object exposures, or object names, trigger action priming, suggesting active object representations are sufficient.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visuomotor priming links visual object perception with action execution.
  • The role of online visual processing in visuomotor priming is debated.
  • The dorsal visual system is implicated in mediating such priming effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether visuomotor priming depends on concurrent visual input.
  • To determine if online dorsal system processes are necessary for affordance priming.
  • To examine the influence of object visibility and representation on action priming.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted to test the dependency of visuomotor priming on visual input.
  • Experiment 1 used backward masking with brief object exposures (30 or 50 ms).

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  • Experiments 2 and 3 employed stimulus degradation and object names, respectively.

    • Main Results:

    • Affordance priming effects were comparable for objects in view and those briefly exposed and masked.
    • Stimulus degradation did not significantly alter affordance effects.
    • Object names elicited priming effects similar to object images.

    Conclusions:

    • Visuomotor priming effects are not contingent upon continuous visual input.
    • An active object representation is sufficient to trigger affordance compatibility effects.
    • These findings suggest that affordance priming can occur independently of online dorsal stream processing.