Towards and away from the body: The relevance of the direction of use in the coding of object-related actions.
This study examines whether the perception of an object automatically activates the representation of the direction of use of that object. To this aim, we carried out two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to explicitly categorise objects as used either away from the body (AB, for...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 74; no. 7; pp. 1225 - 1234 |
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Jul2021
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