Dissociative effects of viewpoint and semantic priming on action and semantic decisions: evidence for dual routes to action from vision.

Journal article

This article reports evidence that two variables--object viewpoint and semantic priming--differentially affect action and semantic decisions to objects. Changing the viewing angle of an object, so that its graspable parts are oriented away from observers, disrupted action decisions but had little effect on semantic categorization. In contrast, semantic priming influenced semantic categorization and object naming, but not action decisions. Action priming, however, did not affect performance. T...

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Authors: Yoon, E; Humphreys, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 601-623
• Publication date: 2007-04-01
• DOI: 10.1080/17470210600701007
• EISSN: 1747-0226
• ISSN: 1747-0218
• Language: English
• Keywords: Visual Perception; Female; Humans; Reaction Time; Semantics; Middle Aged; Adult; Male; Verbal Behavior