Humans possess an extraordinary ability to create and utilize tools. With the advent of
foundation models, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to be equally adept in …

The dominant view of cumulative technological culture suggests that high-fidelity
transmission rests upon a high-fidelity copying ability, which allows individuals to reproduce …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go.
Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be …

Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely
technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity of tools and techniques …

The cortical grasp network encodes planning and execution of grasps and processes
spoken and written aspects of language. High-level cortical areas within this network are …

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 …

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 …

Human technology has evolved in an unparalleled way, allowing us to expand across the
globe. One fascinating question is, how do we understand the cognitive origins of this …

The ubiquity of tool use in human life has generated multiple lines of scientific and
philosophical investigation to understand the development and expression of humans' …