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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Configural coding typically occurs within single objects.
  • Previous research has not demonstrated configural coding between separate objects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate configural coding between separate objects.
  • To explore the role of action relations in configural coding using visual extinction.
  • To determine if object orientation and size affect configural processing of action-related pairs.

Main Methods:

  • Visual extinction patients were presented with object pairs.
  • Object pairs were either co-located for action or not.
  • Object orientation (inversion) and relative size were manipulated.

Main Results:

  • A reduced extinction effect was observed for action-related object pairs.
  • Object inversion disrupted the benefit for action-related pairs, regardless of canonical orientation.
  • Distorting object sizes also diminished the advantage for action-related pairs.

Conclusions:

  • Action relations between separate objects support configural coding.
  • Visuo-motor responses to configural relations contribute to affordance effects.
  • Action-related object pairs are processed as integrated configurations.