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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Res. 2018 Mar 2;83(2):216–226. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-0997-4

Table 1.

Example of name, family, and action/spatial information mapping

Object Assigned tool name Assigned family name Assigned actions: Manip. group Assigned locations: Spatial group
Object a Voothe Hinch Power, shave Upright, shelf
Object b Krel Hinch Poke, shave Side, shelf
Object c Whemp Hinch power, drill upright, floor
Object d Yerts Hinch Poke, drill Side, floor
Object e Dorth Thull Poke, shave Side, shelf
Object f Klarve Thull Power, shave Upright, shelf
Object g Screll Thull Poke, drill Side, floor
Object h Fultch Thull Power, drill Upright, floor

Four participants received this mapping. For other groups of four subjects, the names, as well as the actions/locations, were pseudorandomly reassigned to create a novel mapping. Overall, each object was associated with a unique combination of name, family, and action/spatial information