ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Neural Processes Underlying Tool Use in Humans, Macaques, and Corvids.
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- Beyond the Chicken: Alternative Avian Models for Developmental Physiological Research.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
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- One Biology and the Status of Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Coding of tool use independent of body part.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Opportunistic Tool Use by Two Unexpected Corvid Species.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Evidence of self-care tooling and phylogenetic modeling reveal parrot tool use is not rare.iScience · 2025Article
- Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
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- Robot tool use: A survey.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Review
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Abstract
It was thought that tool use in animals is an adaptive specialization. Recent studies, however, have shown that some non-tool-users, such as rooks and jays, can use and manufacture tools in laboratory settings. Despite the abundant evidence of tool use in corvids, little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying tool use in this family of birds. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the neural processes underlying tool use in humans, macaques and corvids. We suggest a possible neural network for tool use in macaques and hope this might inspire research to discover a similar brain network in corvids. We hope to establish a framework to elucidate the neural mechanisms that supported the convergent evolution of tool use in birds and mammals.
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