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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J.C. eMizelle, Lewis A. Wheaton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
EEG
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00233/full