ReviewCognitive neuropsychology
Tool-use: An open window into body representation and its plasticity.
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- Experimentally induced pain does not influence updating of peripersonal space and body representations following tool-use.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Short Term Motor-Skill Acquisition Improves with Size of Self-Controlled Virtual Hands.PloS one · 2017Trial
- The dynamic bodily self across lifespan: Agency, ownership, and the plasticity of internal body models.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Age-related differences in embodying a tool under visual deprivation.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- The modal-modular model of animal self-representation: a comparative and operational framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Gender identity impacts the perception of vocal congruence.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Revisiting tool use and distance perception: twenty years later.Psychological research · 2025Review
- Beware of physiology: Anthropomorphism as a simplification mechanism for mastering complex human-machine interfaces.PloS one · 2025Article
- From adolescence to old age: how sensory precision shapes body ownership during physiological aging.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- It is time to integrate models across disciplines: a commentary on Krüger et al. (2022).Psychological research · 2024Article
- Multisensory conflict affects body schema and reaching space.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Rewiring the evolution of the human hand: How the embodiment of a virtual bionic tool improves behavior.iScience · 2024Article
- Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Article
- The different impact of attention, movement, and sensory information on body metric representation.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Mindfulness Affects the Boundaries of Bodily Self-Representation: The Effect of Focused-Attention Meditation in Fading the Boundary of Peripersonal Space.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Alpha oscillations reflect similar mapping mechanisms for localizing touch on hands and tools.iScience · 2024Article
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- Knowing your boundaries: no effect of tool-use on body representation following a gather-and-sort task.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Emergence of sense of body ownership but not agency during virtual tool-use training is associated with an altered body schema.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Tool-use training in augmented reality: plasticity of forearm body schema does not predict sense of ownership or agency in older adults.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
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Abstract
Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have primarily focused on the plastic changes that tool-use induces on spatial representations. More recently, we focused on the modifications tool-use must exert on the sensorimotor system and highlighted plastic changes at the level of the body representation used by the brain to control our movements, i.e., the Body Schema. Evidence is emerging for tool-use to affect also more visually and conceptually based representations of the body, such as the Body Image. Here we offer a critical review of the way different tool-use paradigms have been, and should be, used to try disentangling the critical features that are responsible for tool incorporation into different body representations. We will conclude that tool-use may offer a very valuable means to investigate high-order body representations and their plasticity.
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