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21463088

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
Configural coding is known to take place between the parts of individual objects but has never been shown between separate objects. We provide novel evidence here for configural coding between separate objects through a study of the effects of action relations between objects on extinction. Patients showing visual extinction were presented with pairs of objects that were or were not co-located for action. We first confirmed the reduced extinction effect for objects co-located for action. Consistent with prior results showing that inversion disrupts configural coding, we found that inversion disrupted the benefit for action-related object pairs. This occurred both for objects with a standard canonical orientation (e.g., teapot and teacup) and those without, but where grasping and using the objects was made more difficult by inversion (e.g., spanner and nut). The data suggest that part of the affordance effect may reflect a visuo-motor response to the configural relations between stimuli. Experiment 2 showed that distorting the relative sizes of the objects also reduced the advantage for action-related pairs. We conclude that action-related pairs are processed as configurations.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1939-1277
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
580-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of action relations on the configural coding between objects.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. M.J.Riddoch@bham.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't