The cognitive and neural bases of human tool use

• Päätekijä: Cristina Massen (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Francois Osiurak (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Psychology; Neural Bases; tool use; action; cognitive bases; motor control
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Humans are not unique in using tools. But human tool use differs from that known to occur in nonhumans in being very frequent, spontaneous, and diversified. So a fundamental issue is, what are the cognitive and neural bases of human tool use? This Research Topic of Frontiers provides a venue for lea...