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SUBMITTER: Baumard J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4033127 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baumard Josselin J Osiurak François F Lesourd Mathieu M Le Gall Didier D
Frontiers in psychology 20140521
In this paper we review studies that investigated tool use disorders in left-brain damaged (LBD) patients over the last 30 years. Four tasks are classically used in the field of apraxia: Pantomime of tool use, single tool use, real tool use and mechanical problem solving. Our aim was to address two issues, namely, (1) the role of mechanical knowledge in real tool use and (2) the cognitive mechanisms underlying pantomime of tool use, a task widely employed by clinicians and researchers. To do so, ...[more]