Tests of 475 and 31 object concepts did not confirm a shared relation between ease of handling and human EEG and fMRI patterns
We tested whether ease of grasping, holding and moving an object explains visual brain patterns after other object properties are controlled. Public data supplied ten EEG adults and two fMRI studies with three and eighteen adults. Each person fit removed nine rated properties, object offsets, and an early or lower visual pattern control. We kept people and studies separate. A local plan fixed the first shared test before neural outcomes. On 475 concepts, mean partial correlation was 0.0067 in EEG (95% person interval 0.0010 to 0.0124) and 0.0187 in fMRI (-0.0437 to 0.0810). The shared one-sided probability was 0.163. A fixed follow-up used 31 visually matched concepts and the larger fMRI study. EEG gave 0.0369 (-0.0091 to 0.0827); fMRI gave 0.0384 (0.0047 to 0.0721). Its two-test Holm probability was 0.103. Whole-object intervals included zero in both modalities in both tests. Neither shared rule passed. We preserve the 73-concept exploratory check, every person, and all control results. The same EEG people are reused. Source images, region selection and precision differ, and the first fMRI cohort is small. Person t intervals assume normal effects; exact sign tests are also supplied. The result limits this conditional pattern test, not the existence of an action code. The package supplies licensed compact inputs, new weighted object-resampling code with a proof and dense-fit checks, all results, figures, exact source records and repeat steps. We checked 2,040,000 EEG values against original files in all ten people. The second-study source arrays stay external because the public node gives no dataset license.
human neuroscience · EEG · fMRI · object perception · manual affordance · representational similarity · object bootstrap · negative results · THINGS
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We use the idea of object-offset and category-pair controls in a new test of manual ease; we do not reuse its code or neural outcomes.
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Related THINGS cross-modal work motivates care with people, source preprocessing and failed shared tests.
- usesdoi:10.1093/cercor/bhae383
We reuse public participant-level fMRI ROI structures for the fixed follow-up.
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We reuse concept IDs and object property norms.
- usesdoi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119754
We reuse participant-level preprocessed EEG through a pinned, checked mirror.
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Source study for the first fMRI data and common THINGS objects.
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Version 1.0 provides the first-study fMRI distance matrices and rating fingerprints.
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Source atlas for the released fMRI parcels.
- usesdoi:10.7554/eLife.82566
We follow its distinction between person and object uncertainty; the weighted offset implementation is new code.
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Source object concept registry and image collection.
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- usesPositive person scores did not pass a shared typicality test for 173 objects in eight EEG adults and three fMRI adults
We reuse its licensed participant-resolved concept means, fMRI distances, source pins and original-source retrieval code for a distinct typicality endpoint.
- usesA 475-object extension did not confirm a shared weight relation in eight EEG and three fMRI adults
We reuse its licensed compact EEG means, THINGS MRI summaries, concept map, source pins and MIT dyad/statistics and fetch code.
- usesShared typicality tests failed in eight EEG and three fMRI people; two concepts had large effects on mean scores
We reuse its licensed person-resolved compact EEG and fMRI inputs and their exact source trace. We test a new endpoint with new code.
- usesMovement rating differences correlated with pattern differences in seven EEG and three fMRI adults for 475 concepts; a fixed test of 30 concepts failed
We reuse the licensed compact inputs, source provenance, concept map, source fetch script and object-offset formula. We test a different selected property with reserved people and new fixed gates.
- usesAt neutral rating 4, EEG and fMRI tests did not confirm extremity geometry; one object set the 26-object contrast
Upstream weighted pair-method code through the verified immediate source; notices are retained.
- usesA fixed test of 31 object concepts did not confirm a shared heaviness relation in human EEG and fMRI
We reuse its licensed compact EEG concept means, norm rows, image map, source records, weighted endpoint projection and generic person summaries. We test heaviness with new controls and crossed uncertainty in reused cohorts.
- usesFor 455 objects, all 256 source maps gave positive adjusted taxonomy scores in eight EEG and three fMRI adults
This upstream benchmark supplies the inherited source alignment and concept means.
- usesNonvisual sense profiles had positive EEG relations for 463 objects, but shared tests with two fMRI studies failed
We reuse verified licensed compact neural inputs, concept matches, source pins, the public fetch recipe and endpoint algebra. We extend the weighted category adjustment and test a new sensory-composition endpoint.