1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "University of birmingham implied between-object actions affect response selection without knowledge about object functionality" ?
The present paper aimed to examine whether this effect is conditional on the knowledge about object functionality, or whether action-related structures such as handles are sufficient.. This issue was investigated by utilizing a paradigm established by Xu, Humphreys and Heinke ( 2015 ).. The present study empirically illustrated the automaticity and directness of the extraction of potential interaction between objects, probably based on the relative location of action-related structure of objects.. The present paper utilized these two effects as the indexes of response selection in paired-object scenarios, and found that active-passive object pairs without established functionality ( e. g. a saw and a bowl, Experiment 1 ) generated the same effects, suggesting that response selection does not rely on functionality knowledge of given object pairs.. Further, the two effects were also observed in passivepassive object pairs with handles ( e. g. a cup-nail pair ), but not in those without a handle ( e. g. a bowl-nail pair, Experiment 2 ), and remained when the active objects were replaced by novel objects with handle but no known functionality ( Experiment 3 ), suggesting that the action-related structures of objects are sufficient to affect response selection.
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