Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
DOI
10.3389/fnint.2015.00074
Publication Title
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Volume
9
Pages
Article 74
Abstract
Handled objects automatically activate afforded responses. The current experiment examined whether objects that afford a response are also prioritized for attentional processing in visual search. Targets were pictures of coffee cups with handles oriented either to the right or the left. Subjects searched for a target, a right-handled vs. left -handled coffee cup, among a varying number of distractor cups oriented in the opposite direction. Responses were faster when the direction of target handle and the key press were spatially matched than mismatched (stimulus -response compatibility (SRC) effect), but object affordance did not moderate slopes of the search functions, indicating the absence of attentional prioritization effect. These findings imply that handled objects prime afforded responses without influencing attentional prioritization.
Original Publication Citation
Yamani, Y., Ariga, A., & Yamada, Y. (2016). Object affordances potentiate responses but do not guide attentional prioritization. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9, Article 74. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2015.00074
ORCID
0000-0001-8990-0010 (Yamani)
Repository Citation
Yamani, Yusuke; Ariga, Atsunori; and Yamada, Yuki, "Object Affordances Potentiate Responses but Do Not Guide Attentional Prioritization" (2016). Psychology Faculty Publications. 5.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/psychology_fac_pubs/5