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PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
Volume 124, Issue 3, Pages 346-360Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000051
Keywords
tool use; action knowledge; manipulation knowledge; parietal lobe; temporal lobe
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- National Institutes of Health [NIH R01 NS065409, R01 NS099061]
- Albert Einstein Society of Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
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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 in limited circumstances, and suggests instead that most tool use is subserved solely by online technical reasoning about tool properties. In this commentary, I highlight the strengths and limitations of the reasoning-based approach and review a number of lines of evidence that manipulation knowledge is in fact used in tool action tasks. In addition, I present a two routeneurocognitive model of tool use called the Two Action Systems Plus (2AS +) framework that posits a complementary role for online and stored information and specifies the neurocognitive substrates of task-relevant action selection. This framework, unlike the reasoning based approach, has the potential to integrate the existing psychological and functional neuroanatomic data in the tool use domain.
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