James J. Gibson, the founder of ecological psychology, introduced a radical empiricist
approach to perception and action centered on direct perception in naturalistic environments …

The dominant view of cumulative technological culture suggests that high-fidelity
transmission rests upon a high-fidelity copying ability, which allows individuals to reproduce …

Images of tools induce stronger activation than images of nontools in a left-lateralized
network that includes ventral-stream areas implicated in tool identification and dorsal-stream …

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive
processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward …

In an extension of Gibson's (1979) concept of object affordance, it has been proposed that
motor representations are automatically evoked by pictures of graspable objects. A variety of …

Tools are wielded by their handles, but a lot of information about their function comes from
their heads (the action-ends). Here we investigated whether eye saccadic movements are …

We live in a right-hander's world. Although left-handers become accustomed to using right-
handed devices, an underlying preference for objects that afford the dominant hand could …

The handle-to-hand correspondence effect consists of faster and more accurate responses
when the responding hand is aligned with the handle side of an object tool, compared to …

Brain imaging research shows that viewing tools activates regions of the cortex implicated in
performing actions with that tool. Grounded (or embodied) theories of cognition propose that …