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Animals, 2022 Tool use has not yet been confirmed in horses, mules or donkeys. As this subject is difficult to research with conventional methods, we used a crowdsourcing approach to gather data.
Konstanze Krueger +3 more
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Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Learning to use, make, and modify tools is key to our species’ success. Researchers have hypothesized that play with objects may have a foundational role in the ontogeny of tool use and, over evolutionary timescales, in cumulative technological ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +4 more
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Investigating the effects of the aging brain on real tool use performance—an fMRI study [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionHealthy aging affects several domains of cognitive and motor performance and is further associated with multiple structural and functional neural reorganization patterns.
Clara Seifert +8 more
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Potential Tool Use by Wolves (Canis lupus): Crab Trap Pulling in Haíɫzaqv Nation Territory [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe cognitive abilities of canids are increasingly recognized, though insights from noncaptive populations are comparatively rare. Recently, recurring damage to crab traps used by Haíɫzaqv Nation Guardians to control a European Green Crab invasion was ...
Kyle A. Artelle, Paul C. Paquet
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Commentary: Dog Stick Chewing: An Overlooked Instance of Tool Use? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev
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Response: Commentary: Dog Stick Chewing: An Overlooked Instance of Tool Use? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 James Brooks +2 more
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Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Associative Tool Use (ATU) describes the use of two or more tools in combination, with the literature further differentiating between Tool set use, Tool composite use, Sequential tool use and Secondary tool use.
E. Reindl +4 more
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Child Development Perspectives, 2014 Abstract Research on the development of tool use in children has often emphasized the cognitive bases of this achievement, focusing on the choice of an artifact, but has largely neglected its motor foundations. However, research across diverse fields, from evolutionary anthropology to cognitive neuroscience, converges on the idea that
Björn A, Kahrs, Jeffrey J, Lockman
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Current Biology, 2010 The sight of an animal making and using a tool captivates scientists and laymen alike, perhaps because it forces us to question some of our ideas about human uniqueness. Does the animal know how the tool works? Did it anticipate the need for the tool and make it in advance? To some, this fascination with tools seems arbitrary and anthropocentric; after
Seed, Amanda, Byrne, Richard
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Exploring the time window for causal inference and the multisensory integration of actions and their visual effects [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Successful computer use requires the operator to link the movement of the cursor to that of his or her hand. Previous studies suggest that the brain establishes this perceptual link through multisensory integration, whereby the causality evidence that ...
Nienke B. Debats, Herbert Heuer
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