About 40 years ago, James J. Gibson coined the term “affordance” to describe the action
possibilities offered to an animal by the environment with reference to the animal's action …

Limb apraxia comprises a wide spectrum of higher-order motor disorders that result from
acquired brain disease affecting the performance of skilled, learned movements. At present …

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 …

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 …

How is knowledge about the meanings of words and objects represented in the human
brain? Current theories embrace two radically different proposals: either distinct cortical …

Although ideomotor apraxia (IM) has been a topic of investigation since the early 20th
century, progress in studying the models of various investigative groups. As a result, it is …

Since more than a century, neuropsychological models have assumed that the left inferior
parietal cortex is central to tool use by storing manipulation knowledge (the manipulation …

It has been reported that patients with semantic dementia function well in everyday life and
sometimes show striking preservation of the ability to use objects, even those specific …

Recent studies have demonstrated that processing of action words recruits cortical motor
regions that are also involved in the planning and execution of the actions words refer to …

An influential account of selective semantic deficits posits that visual features are heavily
weighted in the representations of animals, whereas information about function is central in …