Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

The ventral visual stream is conceived as a pathway for object recognition. However, we
also recognize the actions an object can be involved in. Here, we show that action …

Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

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 …

Statistical voxel‐based lesion‐behavior mapping (VLBM) in neurological patients with brain
lesions is frequently used to examine the relationship between structure and function of the …

The term 'action understanding'has been defined in several ways since it was first proposed
to describe the psychological process subserved by mirror neurons. Here we outline and …

Our ability to understand how to interact with familiar objects is supported by conceptual tool
knowledge. Conceptual tool knowledge includes action tool and semantic tool knowledge …

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 …

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 …