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  • Title: Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification.
    Author: Filliter JH, McMullen PA, Westwood D.
    Journal: Brain Cogn; 2005 Feb; 57(1):61-5. PubMed ID: 15629216.
    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.
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