On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects.

@article{citeulike:2772207, abstract = {Recent evidence suggests that viewing a static prime object (a hand grasp), can activate action representations that affect the subsequent identification of graspable target objects. The present study explored whether stronger effects on target object identification would occur when the prime object (a hand grasp) was made more action-rich and dynamic. Of additional interest was whether this type of action prime would affect the generation of motor activity normally elicited by the target object. Three experiments demonstrated that grasp observation improved the identification of grasp-congruent target objects relative to grasp-incongruent target objects. We argue from this data that identifying a graspable object includes the processing of its action-related attributes. In addition, grasp observation was shown to influence the motor activity elicited by the target object, demonstrating interplay between action-based and object-based motor coding.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Siltavuorenpenger, 20 D, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.}, author = {Vainio, Lari and Symes, Ed and Ellis, Rob and Tucker, Mike and Ottoboni, Giovanni }, citeulike-article-id = {2772207}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.007}, issn = {0010-0277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {mirror-neurons, motor}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2008-05-08 16:09:36}, priority = {2}, title = {On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.007}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2772207 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2772207 TI - On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects. JF - Cognition AD - Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Siltavuorenpenger, 20 D, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. SN - 0010-0277 N2 - Recent evidence suggests that viewing a static prime object (a hand grasp), can activate action representations that affect the subsequent identification of graspable target objects. The present study explored whether stronger effects on target object identification would occur when the prime object (a hand grasp) was made more action-rich and dynamic. Of additional interest was whether this type of action prime would affect the generation of motor activity normally elicited by the target object. Three experiments demonstrated that grasp observation improved the identification of grasp-congruent target objects relative to grasp-incongruent target objects. We argue from this data that identifying a graspable object includes the processing of its action-related attributes. In addition, grasp observation was shown to influence the motor activity elicited by the target object, demonstrating interplay between action-based and object-based motor coding. KW - mirror-neurons KW - motor AU - Vainio, Lari AU - Symes, Ed AU - Ellis, Rob AU - Tucker, Mike AU - Ottoboni, Giovanni PY - 2008/04/29/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.007 ER -