Evidence for visuomotor priming effect

摘要: 'While seated, the patient took a glass, gave it to examiner and then picked up jug. He poured water into glass and, having put down jug, ...'. This compulsive behaviour, described by Lhermitte in patients with frontal lobe lesions, is an example of how, without any internal motivation, visual stimuli may impel act 'grasp objects presented use them'. We investigated whether this behaviour pathological manifestation normal, automatic object action transformation. To test this, we primed normal subjects, while ready execute grasping movement, visually presenting them drawings irrelevant task be executed. Drawings congruent grasped markedly reduced reaction time for grasping. These data represent first evidence existence visuomotor priming. Seeing facilitates properties that object.