ArticleCognitive neuropsychology
What tool representation, intuitive physics, and action have in common: The brain's first-person physics engine.
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- Dissociation between physical reasoning and tool use in individuals with left hemisphere brain damage.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2026Article
- Distinct and shared neural resources between processing of dynamic physical objects and spatial working memory.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Novel tool use does not depend on mechanical reasoning: evidence from apraxia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- 'Not so intuitive' physics: Orientation supersedes stability in prioritizing attention.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Dissociation between physical reasoning and tool use in individuals with left hemisphere brain damage.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Object-directed action representations are componentially built in parietal cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Decoding predicted future states from the brain's "physics engine".Science advances · 2025Article
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- Reasoning decline during aging under familiar and unfamiliar physics.Frontiers in aging · 2025Article
- Monkeys engage in visual simulation to solve complex problems.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Invariant representations in abstract concept grounding - the physical world in grounded cognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Graspable foods and tools elicit similar responses in visual cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
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- Grounding Cognition in Perceptual Experience.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- A dedicated mental resource for intuitive physics.iScience · 2024Article
- The Role of Agentive and Physical Forces in the Neural Representation of Motion Events.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Tangled Physics: Knots Strain Intuitive Physical Reasoning.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- On the functional brain networks involved in tool-related action understanding.Communications biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
An overlapping set of brain regions in parietal and frontal cortex are engaged by different types of tasks and stimuli: (i) making inferences about the physical structure and dynamics of the world, (ii) passively viewing, or actively interacting with, manipulable objects, and (iii) planning and execution of reaching and grasping actions. We suggest the observed neural overlap is because a common
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