title: Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification.
abstract: Object naming studies have generally observed that both normal and brain damaged individuals are faster and more accurate at identifying non-living objects than living objects (). However, a potential confounding variable, manipulability, has been present in past studies that may mediate this effect. Previous studies that have observed a non-living advantage have often used manipulable and non-manipulable exemplars to represent the non-living and living groups, respectively. Under conditions which controlled for object manipulability and familiarity, results demonstrated advantages for the identification of non-manipulable and for living objects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: Jillian H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Filliter
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: McMullen
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Westwood
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002965:Classification; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014825:Vocabulary