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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Adult age differences in the modulation of peripersonal space after tool use in virtual reality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTool use has been shown to modulate the multisensory representation of the area surrounding our body known as peripersonal space (PPS). Yet, it remains unclear whether such effects extend to tool use in virtual reality (VR), and whether age may influence
Dariusz O’Leary +3 more
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Tool use moves the peri-personal space from the hand to the tip of the tool [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In this study, we used a visual target detection task to investigate three hypotheses about how the peri-personal space is extended after tool-use training: Addition, Extension, and Projection hypotheses.
Ayako Saneyoshi +3 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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Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis
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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Flexible motor adjustment of pecking with an artificially extended bill in crows but not in pigeons [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The dextrous foraging skills of primates, including humans, are underpinned by flexible vision-guided control of the arms/hands and even tools as body-part extensions. This capacity involves a visuomotor conversion process that transfers the locations of
Hiroshi Matsui, Ei-Ichi Izawa
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Alternative Object Use in Adults and Children: Embodied Cognitive Bases of Creativity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Why does one need creativity? On a personal level, improvisation with available resources is needed for online coping with unforeseen environmental stimuli when existing knowledge and apparent action strategies do not work.
Alla Gubenko, Claude Houssemand
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New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Sénégal [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 For anthropologists, meat eating by primates like chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) warrants examination given the emphasis on hunting in human evolutionary history.
J. D. Pruetz +5 more
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Revisiting the relation between syntax, action, and left BA44
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 Among the many lines of research that have been exploring how embodiment contributes to cognition, one focuses on how the neural substrates of language may be shared, or at least closely coupled, with those of action.
David Kemmerer, David Kemmerer
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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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