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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 451-471Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1348/000712600161934
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It is suggested that seen objects potentiate a range of actions associated with them, irrespective of the intentions of the viewer. Evidence for this possibility is provided by the data from two experiments, both of which required a participant to make a binary motor response to an auditory stimulus. In the first experiment the response was a power or precision grip, which was performed whilst simultaneously viewing a real object which would normally be grasped using either a power or precision grip. A significant interaction of response and grip compatibility of the object was observed. Similar results were obtained in the second experiment when a wrist rotation of a given direction was used as a response, whilst viewing objects which would require wrist rotations ii they were to be grasped. The effects of the seen objects on components of action are described as micro-affordances which are said to be dispositonal slates of the viewer's nervous system.
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