Tool Use as Distributed Cognition: how tools help, hinder and define manual skill
Our thesis in this paper is that, in order to appreciate the interplay between cognitive (goal-directed) and physical performance in tool use, it is necessary to determine the role that representations play in the use of tools. We argue that rather being solely a matter of internal (mental) represe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00116/full |