Relation Between Visual Properties and Action : Experimental Data, 1999-2000

The data come from a series of experiments investigating the role of action in object representation. All the experiments involved variants of the Simon task (a type of Stimulus Response Compatibility) where a task irrelevant object property (the cue-property) was used to cue a response that was compatible or incompatible with an object affordance. Participants made speeded responses according to the cue-property of the object. The main interest was to see if the object affordances for action influenced the speed and accuracy with which participants executed their responses.