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

Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Limb apraxia is a group of higher order
motor disorders associated with greater disability and dependence after stroke. Original …

Abstract Action Execution (AE) and Action Observation (AO) share an extended cortical
network of activated areas. During coordinative action these processes also overlap in time …

Colour conveys specific information about the status/quality of an object; whereas its role in
object recognition has been widely studied, little is known about its role in sensorimotor …

Selecting hand actions to manipulate an object is affected both by perceptual factors and by
action goals. Affordances may contribute to “stimulus–response” congruency effects driven …

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 …

Abstract Whether the Object-based Correspondence Effect caused by task-irrelevant
handles of graspable objects is attributed to the spatial-based or motor-based accounts, or …

In stimulus-response compatibility tasks, performance is better when the handle of an object
is oriented on the same side of the response than when the handle is oriented on the …

Existing evidence has shown that adjectives modulate the grasp-compatibility effect elicited
by object nouns. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of syntax on the …

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