The cognitive and neural bases of human tool use
- It is a euphemism to say that humans use tools. Humans possess a vast repertoire of tools they use every day. In fact, as language or bipedal locomotion, tool use is a hallmark of humans. Tool use has also been often viewed as an important step during evolution (van Schaik et al., 1999) or even as a marker of the evolution of human intelligence (Wynn, 1985). So a fundamental issue is, what are the cognitive and neural bases of human tool use? The present series of papers in this special topic represents the newest additions to that research topic.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | François Osiurak, Cristina Massen |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Psychology |
Volume: | 5 |
Article Number: | 1107 |
Number of pages: | 3 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-13214 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01107 |
PMID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25339928 |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
Place of publication: | Lausanne |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2014/10/06 |
Copyright: | © 2014 Osiurak and Massen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |