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The bottle and the glass say to me: 'Pour!'
- Source :
- Experimental Brain Research. 218:539-549
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- The present study aimed at determining whether the observation of two functionally compatible artefacts, that is which potentially concur in achieving a specific function, automatically activates a motor programme of interaction between the two objects. To this purpose, an interference paradigm was used during which an artefact (a bottle filled with orange juice), target of a reaching-grasping and lifting sequence, was presented alone or with a non-target object (distractor) of the same or different semantic category and functionally compatible or not. In experiment 1, the bottle was presented alone or with an artefact (a sphere), or a natural (an apple) distractor. In experiment 2, the bottle was presented with either the apple or a glass (an artefact) filled with orange juice, whereas in experiment 3, either an empty or a filled glass was presented. In the control experiment 4, we compared the kinematics of reaching-grasping and pouring with those of reaching-grasping and lifting. The kinematics of reach, grasp and lift was affected by distractor presentation. However, no difference was observed between two distractors that belonged to different semantic categories. In contrast, the presence of the empty rather filled glass affected the kinematics of the actual grasp. This suggests that an actually functional compatibility between target (the bottle) and distractor (the empty glass) was necessary to activate automatically a programme of interaction (i.e. pouring) between the two artefacts. This programme affected the programme actually executed (i.e. lifting). The results of the present study indicate that, in addition to affordances related to intrinsic object properties, "working affordances" related to a specific use of an artefact with another object can be activated on the basis of functional compatibility.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
business.product_category
Computer science
Movement
Decision Making
Kinematics
Executive Function
Young Adult
Reaction Time
Bottle
Humans
Attention
Computer vision
Affordance
Orange juice
Analysis of Variance
Communication
Hand Strength
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Specific function
GRASP
Hand
Biomechanical Phenomena
Human kinematics
Female
Artificial intelligence
business
Photic Stimulation
Psychomotor Performance
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321106 and 00144819
- Volume :
- 218
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Experimental Brain Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....761783311321e32080f98115318a87d5