Relations
between visual properties and action in the representation of objects.
Ellis
&Tucker
ESRC
01/03/99-
31/07/00
£43,260
The
potentiation of actions by visual objects.
Ellis
& Tucker
ESRC
01/11/96-
31/08/98
£43,242
Attention, affordance
and change blindness.
Symes, Ellis &
Tucker
ESRC
2004-2005
£48,496
Visual affordance and
lateralisation in action planning and control
Vainio, Ellis &
Tucker
ESRC
2004-2005
£46,000
Motor-visual priming
in change blindness
Symes, Ellis &
Tucker
ESRC
2006-2009
£151,000
Applied Collaboration
Early motor responses
to object affordance predicting later motor behaviour in pack selection.
Tucker
Unilever Research and Development
01/10/06 – 31/1/07
£15,700
The role of object
affordances and visuomotor processes in pack selection
Tucker
Unilever Research and
Development
01/10/05 – 31/12/05
£13,700
Publications
Hellier, E. & Tucker M. (in press). The Merits of Using Color and Shape Differentiation to Improve the Speed and Accuracy of Drug Strength Identification on Over the Counter Medicines by Laypeople. Journal of Patient Safety
Symes, E., Tucker M. & Ottoboni, G. (in press). Integrating action and language through biased competition. Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Symes, E., Ottoboni, G., Tucker, M., Ellis R. & Tessari, A. (2010). When motor attention improves selective attention: The dissociating role
of saliency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 7, 1387-1397.
Vainio, L., Symes, E., Ellis R., Tucker M. & Ottobani, G. (2008). On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects. Cognition, 108,2, 444-465.
Symes, E., Tucker, M., Ellis, R., Vainio, L., & Ottoboni, G.. (2008). Grasp preparation improves change-detection for congruent objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34,4, 854-871.
Vainio, L., Tucker, M. & Ellis, R., (2007). Precision and power grip priming by observed grasping. Brain and Cognition, 65, 2, 195-2007.
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2007). Local and global affordances and manual planning. Experimental Brain Research, 179, 4, 583-594.
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2007). The role of visual attention in action priming. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60,2, 241-261.
Ellis R., Tucker, M., Symes, E. & Vainio, L. (2007). Does selecting one visual object from several require inhibition of the actions associated with nonselected objects? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 3,670-691.
Symes, E., Ellis, R., & Tucker, M. (2007) Visual object affordances: Object Orientation. Acta Psychologica,124,2, 238-255.
Vainio, L., Ellis, R., Tucker, M. & Symes, E. (2006).Manual asymmetries in visually primed grasping. Experimental Brain Research 173 (3), 395-406.
Derbyshire, N., Ellis, R. & Tucker, M. (2006). The potentiation of two components of the reach-to-grasp action during object categorisation in visual memory. Acta Psychologica 122 (1), 74-98.
Symes, E., Ellis, R. & Tucker, M. (2005). Dissociating space-based and object-based affordances. Visual Cognition 12 (7), 1337-1361.
Tucker M., Ellis R. (2004). Action priming by briefly presented objects. Acta Psychologica, 116, 185-203.
Grèzes J., Tucker M., Armony J., Ellis R. & Passingham R.E. (2003). Objects automatically potentiate action: an fMRI study of implicit processing. European Journal of Neuroscience. 17, 2735-2740.
Tucker M., Ellis R. (2001). The potentiation of grasp types during visual object categorization. Visual Cognition, 8 ,6, 769-800.
Ellis R.& Tucker M. (2000). Micro-affordance: The potentiation of components of action by seen objects. British Journal of Psychology, 91,4, 451-471.
Tucker, M. & Ellis, R. (1998). On the relations between seen objects and components of potential actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24,3, 830-846.
