Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

Accounts of visually directed actions usually assume that their planning begins with an
intention to act. This article describes three experiments that challenged this view through …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

The close integration between visual and motor processes suggests that some visuomotor
transformations may proceed automatically and to an extent that permits observable effects …

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 …

Three experiments investigated how visual objects prime the actions they afford. The
principal concern was whether such visuomotor priming depends upon a concurrent visual …

Numerous functional neuroimaging studies suggest that widespread bilateral parietal,
temporal, and frontal regions are involved in tool-related and pantomimed gesture …

Although ideomotor apraxia (IM) has been a topic of investigation since the early 20th
century, progress in studying the models of various investigative groups. As a result, it is …

Category-specific impairments of object recognition and naming are among the most
intriguing disorders in neuropsychology, affecting the retrieval of knowledge about either …