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An area specifically devoted to tool use in human left inferior parietal lobule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2012

Guy A. Orban  and
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Guy A. Orban
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Parma University, Parma, 43100 Italy
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Parma University, Parma, 43100 Italy IIT Brain Center for Social and Motor Cognition, Parma, 43100 Italy. guy.orban@med.kuleuven.be
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Abstract

A comparative fMRI study by Peeters et al. (2009) provided evidence that a specific sector of left inferior parietal lobule is devoted to tool use in humans, but not in monkeys. We propose that this area represents the neural substrate of the human capacity to understand tool use by using causal reasoning.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , August 2012 , pp. 234
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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