A5042310557- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Language and cultural evolution
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Traffic and Road Safety
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
2016-2025
Institut Universitaire de France
2016-2025
Laboratoire d’Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs
2016-2025
Université Lumière Lyon 2
2013-2025
Centre d'Exploration et de Recherche Médicale par Emission de Positons
2024
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2024
Laboratoire sur le Langage, le Cerveau et la Cognition
2017-2021
Institut de France
2016-2021
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
2021
Lyon College
2020
Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, fundamental issue to understand the cognitive bases tool use. Given that people cannot tools without manipulating them, proponents manipulation-based approach have argued might be supported by simulation past sensorimotor experiences, also sometimes called affordances. However, in meanwhile, evidence has been accumulated demonstrating critical role mechanical knowledge (i.e., reasoning-based approach). The major goal present article...
Abstract Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in efficiency and complexity of tools techniques human populations over generations. A fascinating question is understand cognitive origins this phenomenon. Because CTC definitely a social phenomenon, most accounts have suggested series mechanisms oriented toward dimension (e.g., teaching, imitation, theory mind, metacognition), thereby minimizing technical potential influence non-social, skills. What if we failed see...
One of the most exciting issues in psychology is, What are psychological mechanisms underlying human tool use? The computational approach assumes that use a (e.g., hammer) requires extraction sensory information about object properties (heavy, rigid), which can then be translated into appropriate motor outputs (grasping, hammering). ecological suggests humans perceive not tools per se but what they afford (a heavy, rigid affords pounding). This is theory affordances. In this article, we...
Our ability to understand how interact with familiar objects is supported by conceptual tool knowledge. Conceptual knowledge includes action and semantic which are the ventro-dorsal ventral pathways, respectively. This apparent functional segregation has been recently called into question. In a block-design fMRI study, 35 participants were asked complete manipulation, function, association judgment tasks about pairs of objects. results showed that lateral occipitotemporal cortex in pathway...
Abstract Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity tools and techniques developed by humans over generations, i.e., cumulative technological culture (CTC). Thus, investigating neurocognitive foundations reasoning is essential to comprehend emergence CTC in our lineage. Whereas functional neuroimaging evidence started highlight critical role area PF left inferior parietal cortex (IPC) no...
Tool-based culture is not unique to humans, but cumulative technological is. The social intelligence hypothesis suggests that this phenomenon fundamentally based on uniquely human sociocognitive skills (e.g., shared intentionality). An alternative also crucially depends physical intelligence, which may reflect fluid and crystallized aspects of enables people understand improve the tools made by predecessors. By using a tool-making-based microsociety paradigm, we demonstrate stronger...
People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go. Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of human technical mind should be a major topic cognitive sciences. Surprisingly, however, scientists not interested in this or address it only marginally other mainstream domains (e.g., motor control, action observation, social cognition). In fact, lack interest may hinder our necessary skills underlying appetence for transforming physical environment. Here, we...
Understanding the evolution of human technology is key to solving mystery our origins. Current theories propose that evolved through accumulation modifications were mostly transmitted between individuals by blind copying and selective retention advantageous variations. An alternative account high-fidelity transmission in context cumulative technological culture supported technical reasoning, which a reconstruction mechanism allows converge optimal solutions. We tested these two competing...