Our understanding of human tool use comes mainly from neuropsychology, particularly from
patients with apraxia or action disorganization syndrome. However, there is no integrative …

Both the action-specific perception account and the ecological approach to perception–
action emphasize the role of action in perception. However, the action-specific perception …

In 1988, the cognitive revolution had become institutionalized: Cognition was the
manipulation of abstract symbols by rules. But, much like institutionalized political parties …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

A chief goal of perception is to help us navigate our environment. According to a rich and
ambitious theory of spatial perception, the visual system achieves this goal not by aiming to …

The extended mind view and the embodied-grounded view of cognition and language are
typically considered as rather independent perspectives. In this paper we propose a …

When humans perceive the environment, angular units of visual information must be
transformed into units appropriate for the specification of such parameters of surface layout …

Previous studies have shown that using a tool modifies in a short time-scale both near-body
space perception and arm-length representation in the body schema. However, to date no …

The action-specific perception account holds that people perceive the environment in terms
of their ability to act in it. In this view, for example, decreased ability to climb a hill because of …

Tool-use has been shown to modify the way the brain represents the metrical characteristics
of the effector controlling the tool. For example, the use of tools that elongate the physical …