About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

The concept of affordances indicates “action possibilities” as characterized by object
properties the environment provides to interacting organisms. Affordances relate to both …

This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of
the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims at increasing knowledge about …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

Recent theories of telepresence or spatial presence in a virtual environment argue that it is a
subjective experience of being in the virtual environment, and that it is the outcome of …

Since 1994, group reaction time (RT) distribution analyses of spatial correspondence effects
have been used to evaluate the dynamics of the spatial Simon effect, a benefit of …

We examined automatic spatial alignment effects evoked by handled objects. Using color as
the relevant cue carried by an irrelevant handled object aligned or misaligned with the …

Two experiments investigate the effects of language comprehension on affordances.
Participants read a sentence composed by either an observation or an action verb (Look …

Reaction time is often shorter when the irrelevant graspable handle of an object
corresponds with the location of a keypress response to the relevant attribute than when it …

Five experiments systematically investigated whether orientation is a visual object property
that affords action. The primary aim was to establish the existence of a pure physical …