Conflict in the kitchen: Contextual modulation of responsiveness to affordances |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, LewishamWay, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK;2. Laboratory of Medical Physics, Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;3. Centre de Recherche de l''Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Canada;4. Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, United States;5. The Virtual Reality and NeuroCognition Laboratory, Technion, Israel Institute of Science, Israel;6. Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland;2. Department of Psychology, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | Recently, human behavior has been considered the product of continuous interactions between perception, cognition and action in which “affordances” (action possibilities the environment has to offer) play an important role. Converging evidence suggests that multiple action possibilities simultaneously compete for further processing, while external and internal factors (e.g., incoming sensory information, predictions) bias this competition. In the present study we used a stop-task to investigate whether context is able to modulate the strength of the responsiveness to affordances. We therefore placed participants in an actual kitchen and workshop during electroencephalographic recordings. A faster response to context congruent objects demonstrated that the direct surrounding is able to affect responsiveness to affordances. In addition, when responses needed to be withheld, context congruent objects evoked greater response conflict as indicated by an enhanced N2 Event Related Potential (ERP) component. |
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| Keywords: | Affordances Perception–action coupling Embodied cognition EEG Action readiness |
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