Perception
and action - Affordances - Social and relational affordances
Recent
studies show that we think of objects in terms of the actions we typically perform
with them, and in terms of their "affordances".
Some
of the questions driving my research:
- do
we activate different affordances when we simply manipulate
objects and when we use them (“how”
vs. “what for” information)?
- are there affordances that are more "stable"
than others (for example, affordances linked to object size could be more
stable than affordances linked to object orientation, as the first are part
of our object knowledge, while the second are computed online)?
- do these different kinds of affordances have different neural underpinnings?
- how
do we react to dangerous objects/affordances?
- how is the way we perceive object affordances influenced and modulated
by the social and relational context, for example by the presence of other
people interacting with the same object?
Papers
on affordances (since 2004)
- Sakreida,
K., Effner, I., Thill, S., Menz, M.M., Jirak, D., Eickhofff, C.R., Ziemke,
T., Eickhoff, S.B., Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F. (2016). Affordance
processing in segregated parieto-frontal dorsal stream sub-pathways. Neuroscience
& Biobehavioral Reviews, 69, 89-112. pdf
to download
- Natraj,
N., Pella, I.M.,
Borghi, A.M., Wheaton,
L.A. (2015). The visual encoding of tool-object affordances. Neuroscience
(Section: Cognitive, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience).2015 Dec 3;310:512-27.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.060.
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Flumini, A., Barca, L., Borghi, A.M., Pezzulo (2015). How
do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture
and stimulus size. Psychological Research, 79, 928–938. DOI 10.1007/s00426-014-0622-0.
pdf to download
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Scorolli, C., &
Borghi, A.M.
(2015).
Square
bananas, blue horses: The relative weight of shape and color in concept recognition
and representation. Frontiers in Psychology, Front. Psychol.6:1542. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01542
.pdf to
download
- Borghi,
A.M., Riggio, L. (2015). Stable and variable affordances are both
automatic and flexible. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:351. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00351.
pdf to download
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Morlino, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M., Nolfi, S. (2015).
Learning to manipulate and categorize in human and artificial agents. Cognitive
Science, 39 (1), 39-64. DOI:
10.1111/cogs.12130. pdf to
download
- Scorolli,
C., Miatton, M., Wheaton, L., Borghi, A.M. (2014). I give
you a cup, I get a cup: A kinematics study on social intention. Neuropsychologia,
57, 196-204. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.006.. pdf
to download
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Kalkan, S., Dag, N., Yuruten, O., Borghi, A.M., Sahin, E.
(2014). Verb concepts from affordances. Interaction Studies 15:1,
1-37. doi: 10.1075/is.15.1.01kal preprint
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Kalenine, S.,Shapiro, A., Flumini, A., Borghi, A.M., Buxbaum,
L. (2014). Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic
object categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(3):645-51.
doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0536-7.. pre-print
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Borghi, A.M. (2014). Affordances and contextual flexibility. Physics
of Life Reviews, 11(2):267-8. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.01.009. Commentary
to van Elk, van Schie and Bekkering, Action Semantics: A unifying conceptual
framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object
knowledge. pre-print
- Caligiore,
D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Ellis, R., Cangelosi, A., Baldassarre,
G. (2013). How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility
effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS. Psychological
Research, 77, 1, 7-19.
pre-print
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Natraj, N., Poole, V., Mizelle, J.C., Flumini, A., Borghi, A.M., Wheaton,
L. (2013). Context and Hand Posture Modulate the Neural Dynamics of Tool-Object
Perception. Neuropsychologia, 51, 506-519. pre-print
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Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Bolzani, R., Borghi, A.M. (2013).
Keep away from danger: Dangerous objects in dynamic and static situations.Frontiers
in Human Neuroscience, 7, 344.. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00344. pdf
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Anelli, F., Ranzini, M., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2013).
Perceiving object dangerousness: An escape from pain? Experimental Brain
Research, 228, 457–466, DOI 10.1007/s00221-013-3577-2. pre-print
- Borghi,
A.M. (2012). Action language comprehension, affordances and goals.
In Yan Coello, Angela Bartolo (Eds).
Language and action in cognitive neuroscience. Contemporary topics in cognitive
neuroscience series (pp. 125-143). Psychology Press. ISBN: 978-1-84872-082-4.
pre-print
- Anelli,
F., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R.(2012).Grasping the pain:
Motor resonance with dangerous affordances. Consciousness & Cognition,
21, 1627-1639. pre-print
- Borghi,
A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2012). Movimento e azione. In Cubelli R. e Job.
R.(Eds.) Psicologia dei processi cognitivi. Roma: Carocci (pp. 121-144). isbn
978-88-430-6160-0. pre-print
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Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Costantini, M.
(2012).Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language
within actual and perceived reaching space. Consciousness and Cognition,
21, 1551–1557. pre-print
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Jacquet, P., Jambon, V., Borghi, A.M., Tessari, A. (2012).
Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations About Tool-Use Behaviors.
PLoS ONE 7(6): e39629. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039629. pre-print;
link
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Borghi, A.M., Flumini,
A., Natraj, N., Wheaton, L.A. (2012). One hand, two objects: Emergence of
affordance in contexts. Brain and Cognition, 80(1), 64-73.
preprint
Materials
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Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Kalkan, S., Sahin, E., Borghi, A.M.
(2012). Humans and robotics hands grasping danger. Proceedings of the
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), WCCI 2012
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 1613-1620, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1489-3.
pre-print
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Liuzza, M.T., Setti, A., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Kids observing
other kids’ hands: visuomotor priming in children. Consciousness &
Cognition, 21, 383-392.
pre-print.
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Ranzini, M., Lugli, L., Anelli, M., Carbone, R., Nicoletti, R., Borghi,
A.M. (2011). Graspable objects shape number processing.Frontiers
in Human Neuroscience, 5, art.147, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00147.
pre-print
- Jacquet,
P., Binkofski, F., Tessari, A., Borghi, A.M. (in press).Can
object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use? Behavioral
and Brain Sciences. Commentary to the target article The cognitive bases
of human tool use by K. Vaesen. pre-print
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Ranzini, M., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2011). With hands
I don’t centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the line
bisection. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2918-2928. pre-print;
Table
- Borghi,
A.M,
Gianelli,
C., Lugli, L. (2011).La dimensione sociale delle affordance: Affordance tra
io e altri. Special issue Cognizione sociale, edited by A.M.Borghi, F. Caruana.
Sistemi
intelligenti,
XXIII, 2, 291-300. pre-print
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Costantini, M., Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M
(2011).When objects are close to me: affordances in the peripersonal space.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 32-38. pre-print
- Ambrosini,
E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Costantini, M. (2011).Experiencing
objects. The role of the body. In: Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian,
N. J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. © New Bulgarian
University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-954-535-660-5 (Eurocogsci, paper 235, pp.
1-5). (best student award).pre-print
- Borghi,
A.M., Di Ferdinando, A., & Parisi, D. (2011). Objects, spatial
compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study. Cognitive Systems
Research, 12, 33-44. pre-print
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Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Ellis, R., Cangelosi, A., & Baldassarre,
G. (2011). Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: A study with
the computational model TROPICALS. Nature Precedings, link.
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Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D. & Baldassarre,
G. (2010). TRoPICALS: A Computational Embodied Neuroscience Model of Experiments
on Compatibility Effects. Psychological Review, 117,1188-228. pre-print
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Pellicano, A., Iani, C., Borghi, A.M., Rubichi, S., Nicoletti,
R. (2010). Simon-like and functional affordance effects with tools: The effects
of object perceptual discrimination and object action state. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2190 — 2201. pre-print
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Pezzulo, G., Barca, L., Lamberti Bocconi, A., Borghi, A.M.
(2010), Motor simulation in a memory task: Evidence from rock climbing,. Proceedings
of the Cognitive Science Society, 2010.
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Morlino, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M., Nolfi, S. (2010).
Developing the ability to manipulate objects: A comparative study with humans
and artificial agents. In B. Johansson, E. Sahin, C. Balkenius (Eds). Proceedings
of the Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund University
Cognitive Studies, pp. 169-170. pre-print
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Pezzulo, G., Barca, L., Lamberti Bocconi, A., Borghi, A.M.
(2010). When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of Motor Simulation
in a Memory Task Performed by Novice and Expert Rock Climbers. Brain and
Cognition, 73, 68-73. pre-print
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Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2010). Categorization
and action. What about object consistence? Acta Psychologica, 133, 203-211.
pre-print
Materials (pdf)
- Borghi,
A.M., Caligiore, D., Scorolli, C. (2010). Objects, words, and actions.
Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology.
In V. Capecchi, M. Buscema, P. Cantucci & B. D’Amore (eds.). Applications
of mathematics in models, artificial neural networks and arts. Mathematics
and society. Berlin: Springer. preprint
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Caligiore,
D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G. (2009). Affordances
and compatibility effects: A neural-Network computational model. In J. Mayor,
N. Ruh, K. Plunkett (Eds.). Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition
II: Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
(pp. 15-26).Singapore: WorldScientific. pre-print
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Borghi, A.M., Riggio, L. (2009). Sentence comprehension and simulation
of objects temporary, canonical and stable affordances. Brain Research,
1253, 117-128. pre-print
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Bazzarin, V., Borghi, A.M., Tessari, A., Nicoletti, R. (2007).
Is a small apple more like an apple or more like a cherry? In: S. Vosniadou
& D.Kayser (eds.). Proceedings of the Meeting of the European Society of Cognitive Science,
Delphi 2007. London: Erlbaum.(pdf).
- Borghi,
A.M., Bonfiglioli, C., Lugli, L., Ricciardelli, P., Rubichi, S.,
Nicoletti, R. (2007). Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information?
Studies with hand primes. Neuroscience Letters, 411, 17-21 .
preprint
- Borghi, A.M.,
Bonfiglioli, C., Lugli, L., Ricciarelli, P., Rubichi, S. Nicoletti, R. (2005).
Visual hand primes and manipulable objects. In: B.Bara,
L. Barsalou, B. Bucciarelli (eds.) COGSCI2005. XXVII Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N. J.:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc., 2005. p. 322-327.
- Tsiotas,
G., Borghi, A.M. & Parisi, D. (2005). Objects and affordances: An Artificial Life simulation. In:
B.Bara, L. Barsalou, B. Bucciarelli (eds.) COGSCI2005. XXVII Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N. J.:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc., 2005. p. 2212-2217.
- Parisi, D., Borghi, A.M., Di Ferdinando, A. & Tsiotas,
G. (2005). Meaning and
motor actions: Behavioral and Artificial Life evidence.
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