TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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 primarily focused on the plastic changes that tool-use induces on spatial representations. More recently, we focused on the modifications tool-use must exert on the sensorimotor system and highlighted plastic changes at the level of the body representation used by the brain to control our movements, i.e., the Body Schema. Evidence is emerging for tool-use to affect also more visually and conceptually based representations of the body, such as the Body Image. Here we offer a critical review of the way different tool-use paradigms have been, and should be, used to try disentangling the critical features that are responsible for tool incorporation into different body representations. We will conclude that tool-use may offer a very valuable means to investigate high-order body representations and their plasticity.
DA  - 2016
DO  - 10.1080/02643294.2016.1167678
KW  - Tool-use
KW  - body image
KW  - body schema
KW  - kinematics
KW  - peripersonal space
LA  - eng
IS  - 1-2
M2  - 82
PY  - 2016
SN  - 0264-3294
SP  - 82-101
T2  - Cognitive Neuropsychology
TI  - Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29079457
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:20:25
ER  -