抄録
Object familiarity influences search performance, producing search asymmetries (e.g. Malinowski & Hubner, 2001). The current experiments investigated whether familiarity driven by manual interaction with real-world objects would affect search efficiency. Stimuli were images of coffee cups with their handles oriented toward either the left or the right. Subjects searched for a uniquely oriented target up among homogeneously oriented distractor cups. Right-handed subjects found a left-handled target among right-handled distractors more efficiently than vice versa. Results imply that familiarity driven by motor interaction can modulate perceptual processing efficiency for everyday objects.
