An area specifically devoted to tool use in human left inferior parietal lobule

作者:Orban Guy A*; Rizzolatti Giacomo
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2012, 35(4): 234-+.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X11001944

摘要

A comparative fMRI study by Peeters et al. (2009) provided evidence that a specific sector of left inferior parietal lobule is devoted to tool use in humans, but not in monkeys. We propose that this area represents the neural substrate of the human capacity to understand tool use by using causal reasoning.

  • 出版日期2012-8