Traditional and new disciplines converge in suggesting that the parietal lobe underwent a
considerable expansion during human evolution. Through the study of endocasts and shape …

Limb apraxia is a heterogeneous disorder of skilled action and tool use that has long
perplexed clinicians and researchers. It occurs after damage to various loci in a densely …

Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for
some 100 years. It has engendered many fascinating descriptions and a wide diversity of …

Apraxia is a cognitive disorder of skilled movements that characteristically affects the ability
to imitate meaningless gestures, or to pantomime the use of tools. Despite substantial …

Actions may be used to directly act on the world around us, or as a means of communication.
Effective communication requires the addressee to recognize the act as being …

The reasoning-based approach championed by Francois Osiurak and Arnaud Badets
(Osiurak & Badets, 2016) denies the existence of sensory-motor memories of tool use except …

The ubiquity of tool use in human life has generated multiple lines of scientific and
philosophical investigation to understand the development and expression of humans' …

Humans differ from other animals in the way they can skilfully and precisely operate or
invent tools to facilitate their everyday life. Tools have dominated our home, travel and work …

To understand how the brain controls actions involving tools, tests have been developed
employing different paradigms such as pantomime, imitation and real tool use. The relevant …

Action, gesture, and sign represent unique aspects of human communication that use form
and movement to convey meaning. Researchers typically use manual coding of video data …