This article focuses on the last 25 years of the 20th century when Larry Jacoby had an extraordinary influence in the areas of attention and memory. During a short 3-year period between 1977 and 1980, four benchmark papers in cognitive psychology documented qualitative distinctions between automatic and attention demanding processes. These studies reflected the zeitgeist for Jacoby's early work...
Whereas the influence of visual information on the activation of perceived affordances is well documented, far less attention has been given to the specific role of language in modulating affordance activation. Furthermore, while several studies have demonstrated that nouns and verbs denoting grasping actions and graspable objects may potentiate affordances, there is little-to-no research...