Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks

M Lesourd, M Servant, J Baumard, E Reynaud… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit
occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use …

Action inhibition and affordances associated with a non-target object: An integrative review

L Vainio, R Ellis - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews evidence for the special inhibitory mechanisms required to keep
response activation related to affordances of a non-target object from evoking responses …

Involvement of the posterior tool processing network during explicit retrieval of action tool and semantic tool knowledge: an fMRI study

M Lesourd, E Reynaud, J Navarro, V Gaujoux… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The parietal architecture binding cognition to sensorimotor integration: a multimodal causal study

L Fornia, A Leonetti, G Puglisi, M Rossi, L Viganò… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Despite human's praxis abilities are unique among primates, comparative observations
suggest that these cognitive motor skills could have emerged from exploitation and …

Left hemisphere dominance for bilateral kinematic encoding in the human brain

CM Merrick, TC Dixon, A Breska, J Lin, EF Chang… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Neurophysiological studies in humans and nonhuman primates have revealed movement
representations in both the contralateral and ipsilateral hemispheres. Inspired by clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study

Y Zhang, D Mirman, P Hoffman - Brain and language, 2023 - Elsevier
Taxonomic and thematic relations are major components of semantic representation but
their neurocognitive underpinnings are still debated. We hypothesised that taxonomic …

[HTML][HTML] Manual praxis and language-production networks, and their links to handedness

G Kroliczak, M Buchwald, P Kleka, M Klichowski… - cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
While Liepmann was one of the first researchers to consider a relationship between skilled
manual actions (praxis) and language for tasks performed “freely from memory”, his primary …

Action goals and the praxis network: An fMRI study

B Michalowski, M Buchwald, M Klichowski… - Brain Structure and …, 2022 - Springer
The praxis representation network (PRN) of the left cerebral hemisphere is typically linked to
the control of functional interactions with familiar tools. Surprisingly, little is known about the …

The temporal involvement of the left supramarginal gyrus in planning functional grasps: A neuronavigated TMS study

W Potok, A Maskiewicz, G Króliczak, M Marangon - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
The left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) is a critical structure in tool use actions, including such
simple acts as selection of appropriate grasps and, if necessary, their on-line corrections …

The neural underpinnings of haptically guided functional gras** of tools: an fMRI study

PP Styrkowiec, AM Nowik, G Króliczak - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The neural bases of haptically guided interactions with tools are largely unknown. Whereas
in the visual domain there is clear evidence for left lateralization of the networks underlying …