Using tools requires that the brain is able to control movements
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 05:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Our ability to use objects and tools to perform actions is essential to our daily activities, and it is developed to a level that is unique to our species. In a study performed by a scientific team of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Paris Descartes University, published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex (www.elsevier.com/locate/cortex), researchers have found that brain-lesioned patients who have difficulties using familiar objects and tools in their usual context (e.g. cutting paper with scissors) may also be impaired at controlling the movement of an object in the context of simpler movements such as pointing at a target...