Category-Specific Effects on the Identification of Non-Manipulable Objects

Autor/inn/en	McMullen, Patricia A.; Purdy, Kerri S.
Titel	Category-Specific Effects on the Identification of Non-Manipulable Objects
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 62 (2006) 3, S.228-240 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2006.06.002
Schlagwörter	Identification; Visual Perception; Familiarity; Cognitive Processes; Predictor Variables; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Identifikation; Identifizierung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Prädiktor; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	Theories of category-specific effects on visual object identification predict easier identification of non-living than living objects. The Sensory-Functional theory credits greater representational weighting of the visual properties of living objects independent of greater weighting of the functional properties of non-living objects. It predicts a lost or reversed non-living advantage for non-manipulable objects. Normal participants matched pictures of non-manipulable objects with words describing three levels of identity while visual object similarity, and concept familiarity were controlled. Consistent with the Sensory-Functional theory, living objects were matched faster than non-living objects. Concept familiarity facilitated subordinate matches. Visual similarity hampered subordinate matches and facilitated basic matches. (Author).
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