The Constituents of Action Representation Evoked When Identifying Manipulable Objects

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dc.contributor.authorLin, Yu-Tang Terry
dc.contributor.supervisorBub, Daniel
dc.contributor.supervisorMasson, Michael E. J.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-08T20:38:17Z
dc.date.available2014-05-08T20:38:17Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-05-08
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractWe examined the effects of keeping hand actions in working memory on the speed of naming handled objects. The features of the hand action and objects’ handle matched or mismatched on two dimensions: alignment (left vs. right), orientation (horizontal vs. vertical). For objects presented in their canonical upright position, the speed of naming was only slower when the actions were partially incongruent with the target object. For rotated objects, the effect was reversed. The pattern of results suggests that the identification system is more sensitive to the functional goal (i.e. the end state) of the rotated object in evoking action representations than the actions evoked by the depicted view (i.e. the beginning state). The findings, overall, strongly support the notion that action representations play a functional role in object identification.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0633en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0623en_US
dc.description.proquestemailtlin23@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5385
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/*
dc.subjectaction representationen_US
dc.subjectobject identificationen_US
dc.subjecttheory of event codingen_US
dc.titleThe Constituents of Action Representation Evoked When Identifying Manipulable Objectsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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