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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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Brain oxygenation patterns during the execution of tool use demonstration, tool use pantomime, and body-part-as-object tool use [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Elsevier B.V. Divergent findings exist whether left and right hemispheric pre- and postcentral cortices contribute to the production of tool use related hand movements. In order to clarify the neural substrates of tool use demonstrations with tool
Helmich, Ingo +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Most studies of human-tool interactions focus on the typical use of a tool (e.g., cutting in the case of a knife). However, little is known about situations requiring atypical tool use (e.g., using a knife to tighten a screw).
Kévin Roche +2 more
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Tool use induces complex and flexible plasticity of human body representations [PDF]
, 2012 Plasticity of body representation fundamentally underpins human tool use. Recent studies have demonstrated remarkably complex plasticity of body representation in humans, showing that such plasticity: (1) occurs flexibly across multiple time-scales, and (
Longo, Matthew R., Serino, A.
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On the Subject of Objects: Four Views on Object Perception and Tool Use
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008 This paper addresses the relation between an agent and its environment, and more specifically, how subjects perceive object/artefacts/tools and their (possible) use. Four different conceptions of the relation between subject and object are compared here:
Tarja Susi, Tom Ziemke
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Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2021 The technology supporting Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) is of particular significance to cultural heritage research. IDN technology provides a means of engagement in cultural heritage sites, a medium for culturally significant stories, and culturally significant story-centric games.
Green, Daniel +2 more
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, 2022 Contains fulltext : 284973.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Miller, L.E.C., Farnè, A.
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