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SUBMITTER: Yee E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4138717 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20130430 6
How do people represent object meaning? It is now uncontentious that thinking about manipulable objects (e.g., pencils) activates brain regions underlying action. But is this activation part of the meaning of these objects, or is it merely incidental? The research we report here shows that when the hands are engaged in a task involving motions that are incompatible with those used to interact with frequently manipulated objects, it is more difficult to think about those objects--but not harder t ...[more]