ORCID
- Goslin, Jeremy: 0000-0001-7894-1140
Abstract
If our central representation of an object is defined through embodied experience, we might expect access to action affordances to be privileged over more abstract concepts. We used event-related potentials to examine the relative time course of access to affordances. Written object names were primed with the name of an object sharing the same affordance as the target (e.g. precision-grip: "grape" primed by "tweezers") or the same taxonomic category (e.g. fruit: "grape" primed by "apple"). N200 latencies, related to go/nogo semantic category decisions on target words, revealed no difference in facilitation provided by affordance and semantic priming. However, separate analyses of ERPs for go and nogo trials showed that semantic priming led to earlier activation during go trials (around 430 ms), and affordance priming led to earlier activation during nogo trials (around 180 ms). While affordances appear to be peripheral to the conceptual representation of objects, they do lead to direct motor preparation.
DOI
10.1016/j.bandl.2018.06.002
Publication Date
2018-09-01
Publication Title
Brain and Language
Volume
184
First Page
20
Last Page
31
ISSN
0093-934X
Embargo Period
2019-06-20
Organisational Unit
School of Psychology
Keywords
Affordances, EEG, Event-related potentials, Go/nogo, Language, Masked priming, Semantic decision task, Sensorimotor, Visual word recognition
Recommended Citation
Feven-Parsons, I. M., & Goslin, J. (2018) 'Electrophysiological study of action-affordance priming between object names.', Brain and Language, 184, pp. 20-31. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2018.06.002
