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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Motor Control
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Object-response alignment effects suggest automatic action activation.
  • Previous research showed alignment effects were dependent on motor-imagery instructions.
  • This dependency suggested alignment effects are specific to hand-based responses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the underlying mechanisms of object-response alignment effects.
  • To determine if alignment effects are limited to hand-based responses or extend to other effectors.
  • To test the abstract spatial coding account against the motor-imagery-specific account.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed object judgment tasks with varying response modalities.
  • Response modalities included same-hand finger responses and foot responses.
  • The presence and extent of alignment effects were measured across conditions.

Main Results:

  • Alignment effects were observed even without explicit motor-imagery instructions.
  • Alignment effects were found for same-hand finger responses.
  • Alignment effects were also present for left and right foot responses.

Conclusions:

  • Motor-imagery instructions are not necessary for object-response alignment effects.
  • Alignment effects are not restricted to hand-based actions.
  • Findings support the abstract spatial coding account, indicating broader spatial processing in object interaction.