Why is that hammer in my coffee? A multimodal imaging investigation of contextually-based tool understanding.
Appropriate tool-object pairing is a natural part of our lives. When preparing to stir coffee, we know that a hammer is useful for some tasks but that it is not appropriate in this behavioral context. The neural correlates of this context-tool pairing process remain unclear. In the current work,...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2010-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00233/full |