Review/Journal Article

FZJ-2023-02330

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Schubotz, R. I. (Corresponding author) ; Ebel, S. J. ; Elsner, B. ; Weiss-Blankenhorn, P.FZJ* ; Wörgötter, F.

2023
Frontiers Research Foundation Lausanne

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/34536  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1191792

Abstract: Tools have coined human life, living conditions, and culture. Recognizing thecognitive architecture underlying tool use would allow us to comprehendits evolution, development, and physiological basis. However, the cognitiveunderpinnings of tool mastering remain little understood in spite of long-timeresearch in neuroscientific, psychological, behavioral and technological fields.Moreover, the recent transition of tool use to the digital domain poses newchallenges for explaining the underlying processes. In this interdisciplinary review,we propose three building blocks of tool mastering: (A) perceptual and motorabilities integrate to tool manipulation knowledge, (B) perceptual and cognitiveabilities to functional tool knowledge, and (C) motor and cognitive abilities tomeans-end knowledge about tool use. This framework allows for integratingand structuring research findings and theoretical assumptions regarding thefunctional architecture of tool mastering via behavior in humans and non-humanprimates, brain networks, as well as computational and robotic models. Aninterdisciplinary perspective also helps to identify open questions and to inspireinnovative research approaches. The framework can be applied to studies on thetransition from classical to modern, non-mechanical tools and from analogueto digital user-tool interactions in virtual reality, which come with increasedfunctional opacity and sensorimotor decoupling between tool user, tool, andtarget. By working towards an integrative theory on the cognitive architecture ofthe use of tools and technological assistants, this review aims at stimulating futureinterdisciplinary research avenues.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Kognitive Neurowissenschaften (INM-3)

Research Program(s):

1. 5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability (POF4-525) (POF4-525)
2. DFG project 491111487 - Open-Access-Publikationskosten / 2022 - 2024 / Forschungszentrum Jülich (OAPKFZJ) (491111487) (491111487)
3. DFG project 431549029 - SFB 1451: Schlüsselmechanismen normaler und krankheitsbedingt gestörter motorischer Kontrolle (431549029) (431549029)

Appears in the scientific report 2023

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; ; ; ; Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List ; Current Contents - Clinical Medicine ; Current Contents - Social and Behavioral Sciences ; DOAJ Seal ; IF < 5 ; JCR ; PubMed Central ; SCOPUS ; Social Sciences Citation Index

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