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Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity
Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have primarily focused on the plastic changes that tool-use induces on spatial representations. More recently, we focused...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27315277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2016.1167678 |
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author | Martel, Marie Cardinali, Lucilla Roy, Alice C. Farnè, Alessandro |
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description | Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have primarily focused on the plastic changes that tool-use induces on spatial representations. More recently, we focused on the modifications tool-use must exert on the sensorimotor system and highlighted plastic changes at the level of the body representation used by the brain to control our movements, i.e., the Body Schema. Evidence is emerging for tool-use to affect also more visually and conceptually based representations of the body, such as the Body Image. Here we offer a critical review of the way different tool-use paradigms have been, and should be, used to try disentangling the critical features that are responsible for tool incorporation into different body representations. We will conclude that tool-use may offer a very valuable means to investigate high-order body representations and their plasticity. |
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spelling | pubmed-49750772016-08-25 Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity Martel, Marie Cardinali, Lucilla Roy, Alice C. Farnè, Alessandro Cogn Neuropsychol Articles Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have primarily focused on the plastic changes that tool-use induces on spatial representations. More recently, we focused on the modifications tool-use must exert on the sensorimotor system and highlighted plastic changes at the level of the body representation used by the brain to control our movements, i.e., the Body Schema. Evidence is emerging for tool-use to affect also more visually and conceptually based representations of the body, such as the Body Image. Here we offer a critical review of the way different tool-use paradigms have been, and should be, used to try disentangling the critical features that are responsible for tool incorporation into different body representations. We will conclude that tool-use may offer a very valuable means to investigate high-order body representations and their plasticity. Routledge 2016-02-17 2016-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4975077/ /pubmed/27315277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2016.1167678 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Martel, Marie Cardinali, Lucilla Roy, Alice C. Farnè, Alessandro Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title | Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title_full | Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title_fullStr | Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title_full_unstemmed | Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title_short | Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity |
title_sort | tool-use: an open window into body representation and its plasticity |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27315277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2016.1167678 |
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