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Lesourd M, Martin J, Hague S, Laroze M, Clément G, Comte A, Medeiros de Bustos E, Fargeix G, Magnin E, Moulin T. Organization of conceptual tool knowledge following left and right brain lesions: Evidence from neuropsychological dissociations and multivariate disconnectome symptom mapping. Brain Cogn 2024; 181:106210. [PMID: 39217817 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Revised: 07/11/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
Abstract
The aim of this work was to better understand the organization of conceptual tool knowledge following stroke. We explored specifically the link between manipulation kinematics and manipulation hand posture; and the link between manipulation kinematics and function relations in left brain-damaged (n = 30) and right brain-damaged (n = 30) patients. We examined the performance of brain-damaged patients in conceptual tool tasks using neuropsychological dissociations and disconnectome symptom mapping. Our results suggest that manipulation kinematics is more impaired than function relations, following left or right brain lesions. We also observed that manipulation kinematics and manipulation hand posture are dissociable dimensions but are still highly interrelated, particularly in left brain-damaged patients. We also found that the corpus callosum and bilateral superior longitudinal fasciculus are involved in action and semantic tool knowledge following left brain lesions. Our results provide evidence that the right hemisphere contains conceptual tool representations. Further studies are needed to better understand the mechanisms supporting the cognitive recovery of conceptual tool knowledge. An emerging hypothesis is that the right hemisphere may support functional recovery through interhemispheric transfer following a left hemisphere stroke.
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322 LINC, F-25000, Besançon, France; Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS, UAR 3124 MSHE, Besançon, France; Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France.
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- Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France; Centre Mémoire Ressources et Recherche (CMRR), Service de Neurologie, CHRU Besançon, F-25000 Besançon, France
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- Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France
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- Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France
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- Centre Mémoire Ressources et Recherche (CMRR), Service de Neurologie, CHRU Besançon, F-25000 Besançon, France
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- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322 LINC, F-25000, Besançon, France
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- Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France
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- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322 LINC, F-25000, Besançon, France; Centre Mémoire Ressources et Recherche (CMRR), Service de Neurologie, CHRU Besançon, F-25000 Besançon, France
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- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322 LINC, F-25000, Besançon, France; Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire (UNV) et Hôpital de jour (HDJ), Service de Neurologie, CHRU de Besançon, France
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Metaireau M, Osiurak F, Seye A, Lesourd M. The neural correlates of limb apraxia: An anatomical likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain-damaged patients. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 162:105720. [PMID: 38754714 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 04/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
Abstract
Limb apraxia is a motor disorder frequently observed following a stroke. Apraxic deficits are classically assessed with four tasks: tool use, pantomime of tool use, imitation, and gesture understanding. These tasks are supported by several cognitive processes represented in a left-lateralized brain network including inferior frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobe (IPL), and lateral occipito-temporal cortex (LOTC). For the past twenty years, voxel-wise lesion symptom mapping (VLSM) studies have been used to unravel the neural correlates associated with apraxia, but none of them has proposed a comprehensive view of the topic. In the present work, we proposed to fill this gap by performing a systematic Anatomic Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis of VLSM studies which included tasks traditionally used to assess apraxia. We found that the IPL was crucial for all the tasks. Moreover, lesions within the LOTC were more associated with imitation deficits than tool use or pantomime, confirming its important role in higher visual processing. Our results questioned traditional neurocognitive models on apraxia and may have important clinical implications.
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- Maximilien Metaireau
- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322, LINC, Besançon F-25000, France; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement (UAR 3124), Besançon, France.
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France
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- Université de Franche-Comté, UMR INSERM 1322, LINC, Besançon F-25000, France; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement (UAR 3124), Besançon, France; Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire, CHU Besançon, France.
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Osiurak F, Delporte L, Revol P, Melgar L, Robert de Beauchamp A, Quesque F, Rossetti Y. The social cognitive dimension of pantomime. Brain Cogn 2023; 166:105942. [PMID: 36621188 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2022.105942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Pantomime production is commonly interpreted as reflecting tool-use-related cognitive processes. Yet, in everyday life, pantomime deserves a communication function and the exaggeration of amplitude found during pantomime compared to real tool use may reflect the individual's attempt to communicate the intended gesture. Therefore, the question arises about whether pantomime is a communicative behavior that is nevertheless supported only by non-social cognitive processes. We contribute to answering this question by using kinematic analyses. Participants performed the pantomime of using a saw or a hammer from visual presentation in three conditions: Free (no specific instructions), Self (focus on the real tool-use action), and Others (focus on the communicative dimension). Finally, they used the tool with the corresponding object (Actual condition). Participants' social cognition were assessed using gold standard questionnaires. Our results indicated that the manipulation of instructions had a minor effect on the exaggeration of amplitude during pantomime. We reported a link between the social cognition score and the amplitude in the Others condition for the hammer, which suggests that social cognitive processes could take part in pantomime production in some conditions. Nevertheless, this result does not alter our conclusion that social cognitive processes might be far from necessary for pantomime production.
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- François Osiurak
- Unité de Recherche Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Trajectoires Team (Inserm UMR_S 1028-CNRS-UMR 5292-Université de Lyon), Bron, France; Mouvement et Handicap and Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, St Genis Laval, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Trajectoires Team (Inserm UMR_S 1028-CNRS-UMR 5292-Université de Lyon), Bron, France; Mouvement et Handicap and Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, St Genis Laval, France
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- Unité de Recherche Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Trajectoires Team (Inserm UMR_S 1028-CNRS-UMR 5292-Université de Lyon), Bron, France; Mouvement et Handicap and Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, St Genis Laval, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Trajectoires Team (Inserm UMR_S 1028-CNRS-UMR 5292-Université de Lyon), Bron, France; Mouvement et Handicap and Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, St Genis Laval, France
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Curreri C, Trevisan C, Grande G, Giantin V, Ceolin C, Maggi S, Noale M, Baggio G, Sergi G. The influence of occupation type and complexity on cognitive performance in older adults. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2022; 326:111542. [PMID: 36137478 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2022.111542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Sociodemographic factors, such as education and occupation, may influence the individual's cognitive reserve. We explored the extent to which the type and complexity of previous work activities influence cognitive performance (evaluated with Mini-Mental State Examination, MMSE, and the Animal Naming Test, ANT) in 799 older people with or without brain damage. The presence of cortical/subcortical ischemic brain lesions and right/left hippocampal atrophy was derived from magnetic resonance imaging. We found that individuals who had done intellectual work had better MMSE and ANT scores than their counterparts in the presence of brain lesions or hippocampal atrophy. Among the manual workers there were significant differences between the MMSE scores of individuals with and without brain damage (mean MMSE difference (2.09 [SD: 0.68], p=0.01), but not among the intellectuals (0.19 [SD: 0.29], p=0.36) nor the service providers (1.67 [SD: 0.55], p=0.21). Occupations involving more complex dealings with people were associated with better MMSE scores in the presence of brain lesions [β=-0.41, 95%CI: -0.72,-0.09] and hippocampal atrophy [β=-0.29, 95%CI:-0.58,-0.001]. These results indicate that in more cognitively stimulating work with greater social interaction may help older individuals preserve cognitive functions, even in the presence of brain damage.
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- Chiara Curreri
- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
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- Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Padua, Italy
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- Italian Center for Studies on Gender Health and Medicine, Padua, Italy
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Baumard J, Lesourd M, Guézouli L, Osiurak F. Physical understanding in neurodegenerative diseases. Cogn Neuropsychol 2022; 38:490-514. [PMID: 35549825 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2022.2071152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
This quantitative review gives an overview of physical understanding (i.e., the ability to represent and use the laws of physics to interact with the physical world) impairments in Alzheimer's disease (AD), semantic dementia (SD), and corticobasal syndrome (CBS), as assessed mainly with mechanical problem-solving and tool use tests. This review shows that: (1) SD patients have apraxia of tool use because of semantic tool knowledge deficits, but normal performance in tests of physical understanding; (2) AD and CBS patients show impaired performance in mechanical problem-solving tests, probably not because of intrinsic deficits of physical understanding, but rather because of additional cognitive (AD) or motor impairments (CBS); (3) As a result, the performance in mechanical problem-solving tests is not a good predictor of familiar tool use in dementia; (4) Actual deficits of physical understanding are probably observed only in late stages of neurodegenerative diseases, and associated with functional loss.
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- Josselin Baumard
- Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA 7475), 76000 Rouen, France.,Centre de Recherche sur les Fonctionnements et Dysfonctionnements Psychologiques (EA 7475), Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté Besançon, France.,MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA 7475), 76000 Rouen, France.,Centre de Recherche sur les Fonctionnements et Dysfonctionnements Psychologiques (EA 7475), Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de Lyon, Bron Cedex, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Osiurak F, Reynaud E, Baumard J, Rossetti Y, Bartolo A, Lesourd M. Pantomime of tool use: looking beyond apraxia. Brain Commun 2021; 3:fcab263. [PMID: 35350708 PMCID: PMC8936430 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcab263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Pantomime has a long tradition in clinical neuropsychology of apraxia. It has been much more used by researchers and clinicians to assess tool-use disorders than real tool use. Nevertheless, it remains incompletely understood and has given rise to controversies, such as the involvement of the left inferior parietal lobe or the nature of the underlying cognitive processes. The present article offers a comprehensive framework, with the aim of specifying the neural and cognitive bases of pantomime. To do so, we conducted a series of meta-analyses of brain-lesion, neuroimaging and behavioural studies about pantomime and other related tasks (i.e. real tool use, imitation of meaningless postures and semantic knowledge). The first key finding is that the area PF (Area PF complex) within the left inferior parietal lobe is crucially involved in both pantomime and real tool use as well as in the kinematics component of pantomime. The second key finding is the absence of a well-defined neural substrate for the posture component of pantomime (both grip errors and body-part-as-tool responses). The third key finding is the role played by the intraparietal sulcus in both pantomime and imitation of meaningless postures. The fourth key finding is that the left angular gyrus seems to be critical in the production of motor actions directed towards the body. The fifth key finding is that performance on pantomime is strongly correlated with the severity of semantic deficits. Taken together, these findings invite us to offer a neurocognitive model of pantomime, which provides an integrated alternative to the two hypotheses that dominate the field: The gesture-engram hypothesis and the communicative hypothesis. More specifically, this model assumes that technical reasoning (notably the left area PF), the motor-control system (notably the intraparietal sulcus), body structural description (notably the left angular gyrus), semantic knowledge (notably the polar temporal lobes) and potentially theory of mind (notably the middle prefrontal cortex) work in concert to produce pantomime. The original features of this model open new avenues for understanding the neurocognitive bases of pantomime, emphasizing that pantomime is a communicative task that nevertheless originates in specific tool-use (not motor-related) cognitive processes. .
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d’Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA3082), Université Lyon 2, 69676 Bron, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d’Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA3082), Université Lyon 2, 69676 Bron, France
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- Normandie University, UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA7475), 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Trajectoires Team, CNRS U5292, Inserm U1028, Université de Lyon, 69676 Bron, France
- Mouvement, Handicap, et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval, France
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- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR9193, SCALab—Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive (UR481), Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, France
- MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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Lesourd M, Servant M, Baumard J, Reynaud E, Ecochard C, Medjaoui FT, Bartolo A, Osiurak F. Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks. Neuropsychologia 2021; 159:107918. [PMID: 34166668 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use, namely, semantic and action tool knowledge. Semantic tool knowledge contains information about the prototypical use of familiar tools, such as function (e.g., a hammer and a mallet share the same purpose) and associative relations (e.g., a hammer goes with a nail). Action tool knowledge contains information about how to manipulate tools, such as hand posture and kinematics. The present review aimed to better understand the neural correlates of action and semantic tool knowledge, by focusing on activation, stimulation and patients' studies (left brain-damaged patients). We found that action and semantic tool knowledge rely upon a large brain network including temporal and parietal regions. Yet, while action tool knowledge calls into play the intraparietal sulcus, function relations mostly involve the anterior and posterior temporal lobe. Associative relations engaged the angular and the posterior middle temporal gyrus. Moreover, we found that hand posture and kinematics both tapped into the inferior parietal lobe and the lateral occipital temporal cortex, but no region specificity was found for one or the other representation. Our results point out the major role of both posterior middle temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe for action and semantic tool knowledge. They highlight the common and distinct brain networks involved in action and semantic tool networks and spur future directions on this topic.
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France.
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000, Lille, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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The Effectiveness of a Virtual Reality-Based Intervention on Cognitive Functions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Single-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial. Games Health J 2021; 10:109-114. [DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2020.0086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Osiurak F, Federico G, Brandimonte MA, Reynaud E, Lesourd M. On the Temporal Dynamics of Tool Use. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:579378. [PMID: 33364928 PMCID: PMC7750203 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.579378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, Italy
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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Using tools effectively despite defective hand posture: A single-case study. Cortex 2020; 129:406-422. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The – weak – role of memory in tool use: Evidence from neurodegenerative diseases. Neuropsychologia 2019; 129:117-132. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Baumard J, Etcharry-Bouyx F, Chauviré V, Boussard D, Lesourd M, Remigereau C, Rossetti Y, Osiurak F, Le Gall D. Effect of object substitution, spontaneous compensation and repetitive training on reaching movements in a patient with optic ataxia. Neuropsychol Rehabil 2019; 30:1786-1813. [PMID: 31030640 DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2019.1607397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
We report the case of M.B. who demonstrated severe optic ataxia with the right hand following stroke in the left hemisphere. The clinical picture may shed light on both the pathological characteristics of reaching and grasping actions, and potential rehabilitation strategies for optic ataxia. First, M.B. demonstrated a dissociation between severely impaired reaching and relatively spared grasping and tool use skills and knowledge, which confirms that grasping may be more intermingled with non-motoric cognitive mechanisms than reaching. Besides, M.B.'s reaching performance was sensitive to movement repetition. We observed a substitution effect: Reaching time decreased if M.B. repeatedly reached toward the same object but increased when object identity changed. This may imply that not only object localization but also object identity, is integrated into movement programming in reach-to-grasp tasks. Second, studying M.B.'s spontaneous compensation strategies ascertained that the mere repetition of reaching movements had a positive effect, to the point M.B. almost recovered to normal level after an intensive one-day repetitive training session. This case study seems to provide one of the first examples of optic ataxia rehabilitation. Reaching skills can be trained by repetitive training even two years post-stroke and despite the presence of visuo-imitative apraxia.
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- Laboratory of Psychology LPPL (EA 4638), University of Angers, Angers, France.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
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- Laboratory of Psychology LPPL (EA 4638), University of Angers, Angers, France.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
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- Neuropsychological Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082), University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082), University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082), University of Lyon, Lyon, France.,French Universitary Institute, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Psychology LPPL (EA 4638), University of Angers, Angers, France.,Neuropsychological Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
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Osiurak F, Lesourd M, Rossetti Y, Baumard J. Is There Really a Loss of Agency in Patients With Apraxia of Tool Use? Front Psychol 2019; 10:87. [PMID: 30804829 PMCID: PMC6370719 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France,*Correspondence: François Osiurak
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, LNC, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France,CNRS, Fédération 3C, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France
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- Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, and Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France,Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
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Cerebral correlates of imitation of intransitive gestures: An integrative review of neuroimaging data and brain lesion studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 95:44-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 07/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Osiurak F, Lesourd M, Delporte L, Rossetti Y. Tool Use and Generalized Motor Programs: We All Are Natural Born Poly-Dexters. Sci Rep 2018; 8:10429. [PMID: 29993002 PMCID: PMC6041280 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28759-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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For most people, human tool use is inextricably entwined with manual dexterity. This folk belief is widespread among scientists too. In this line, human tool use is based on motor programs about how the hand interacts with tools, implying that the use of end-effectors other than the hand should generate motor control difficulties (e.g., inability to reproduce a specific tool-use action over time), because these so-called programs characterize the spatiotemporal parameters of hand movements, but not of other end-effectors. To test this, we asked participants to perform three tool-use actions (e.g., pounding a nail) with four end-effectors (i.e., right foot, right elbow, left hand, right hand). We show that participants not only spontaneously performed the tool-use actions effectively, but also crucially kept tools’ spatiotemporal parameters constant among the end-effectors. This phenomenon, which we call poly-dexterity, is at odds with the view that the human brain stores hand-centered motor programs for tool use. Poly-dexterity is instead consistent with the idea that, once the tool-use action is formed mentally, general motor programs can be applied to a variety of end-effectors. Reversing the usual evolutionary perspective, our findings support that, in the course of evolution, manual dexterity has come after tool-use skills.
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, 5, avenue Pierre Mendès-France, 69676, Bron Cedex, France. .,Institut Universitaire de France, 103, Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, 5, avenue Pierre Mendès-France, 69676, Bron Cedex, France
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- Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, & Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, 16, avenue Doyen Lépine, 69676, Bron Cedex, France.,Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, 20, route de Vourles, 69230, St Genis Laval, France
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- Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, & Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, 16, avenue Doyen Lépine, 69676, Bron Cedex, France.,Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, 20, route de Vourles, 69230, St Genis Laval, France
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McDowell T, Holmes NP, Sunderland A, Schürmann M. TMS over the supramarginal gyrus delays selection of appropriate grasp orientation during reaching and grasping tools for use. Cortex 2018; 103:117-129. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Lesourd M, Budriesi C, Osiurak F, Nichelli PF, Bartolo A. Mechanical knowledge does matter to tool use even when assessed with a non-production task: Evidence from left brain-damaged patients. J Neuropsychol 2017; 13:198-213. [DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082); Lyon University; Bron France
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
- Center for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082); Lyon University; Bron France
- Institut Universitaire de France; Paris France
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
- Center for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
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- Institut Universitaire de France; Paris France
- Cognitive and Affective Sciences Laboratory (SCALab) CNRS UMR 9193; CHU; Lille University; Lille France
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Danel S, Osiurak F, von Bayern AMP. From the Age of 5 Humans Decide Economically, Whereas Crows Exhibit Individual Preferences. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17043. [PMID: 29213080 PMCID: PMC5719055 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16984-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Human societies greatly depend on tools, which spare us considerable time and effort. Humans might have evolved a bias to employ tools, using them even when they are unnecessary. This study aimed to investigate whether adult humans and a distantly related habitually tool-using vertebrate species, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides), use tools depending on their necessity. In addition, children aged 3 to 5 years were examined to investigate the developmental pattern. The task involved choosing between using a body part (i.e. crows: beak; humans: hand) or a tool for retrieving a reward from a box. All subjects were tested in two conditions. In the Body+/Tool- condition, using the body was more efficient than using the tool, and conversely in the Body-/Tool+ condition. Our results suggest that the capacity to employ tools economically develops late in humans. Crows, however, failed to choose economically. At the individual level, some subjects exhibited striking individual preferences for either using a tool or their beak throughout the task. Whether such biases depend on individual experience or whether they are genetically determined remains to be investigated. Our findings provide new insights about tool use and its cognitive implementation in two outstanding tool-using taxa.
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- Samara Danel
- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms, University of Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, Bron, 69676, France.
- Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, 82319, Seewiesen, Germany.
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms, University of Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, Bron, 69676, France
- University Institute of France, Paris Ile-de-France, Paris, 75005, France
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Osiurak F. Cognitive Paleoanthropology and Technology: Toward a Parsimonious Theory (PATH). REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Tool use in humans and hominins (i.e., extant relatives to humans) is unique in several respects. To date, no attempt has been made to review the main patterns of tool behavior specific to these species as well as to integrate them into a coherent framework. The aim here is to fill this gap by (a) identifying these behavioral specificities and (b) trying to explain the greatest number of these specificities with the lowest number of cognitive mechanisms. Based on this approach, this article provides a potential solution, namely, the PArsimonious THeory of hominin technology (PATH), aiming to account for the cognitive origins of 4 behavioral characteristics: transfer, complex tool use, secondary tool use, and tool saving. A key hypothesis is that the emergence of 2 breaking mechanisms—technical reasoning and semantic reasoning—could have boosted hominin technology. PATH offers an original framework for understanding the most archaic, human cognitive traits, thereby providing a good starting point for future investigation about the cognitive evolution of technology in the genus Homo.
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The Neuropsychology of Movement and Movement Disorders: Neuroanatomical and Cognitive Considerations. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2017; 23:768-777. [PMID: 29198273 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617717000698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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This paper highlights major developments over the past two to three decades in the neuropsychology of movement and its disorders. We focus on studies in healthy individuals and patients, which have identified cognitive contributions to movement control and animal work that has delineated the neural circuitry that makes these interactions possible. We cover advances in three major areas: (1) the neuroanatomical aspects of the "motor" system with an emphasis on multiple parallel circuits that include cortical, corticostriate, and corticocerebellar connections; (2) behavioral paradigms that have enabled an appreciation of the cognitive influences on the preparation and execution of movement; and (3) hemispheric differences (exemplified by limb praxis, motor sequencing, and motor learning). Finally, we discuss the clinical implications of this work, and make suggestions for future research in this area. (JINS, 2017, 23, 768-777).
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Martin M, Hermsdörfer J, Bohlhalter S, Weiss PH. [Networks involved in motor cognition : Physiology and pathophysiology of apraxia]. DER NERVENARZT 2017; 88:858-865. [PMID: 28664265 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-017-0370-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Apraxia is an umbrella term for different disorders of higher motor abilities that are not explained by elementary sensorimotor deficits (e. g. paresis or ataxia). Characteristic features of apraxia that are easy to recognize in clinical practice are difficulties in pantomimed or actual use of tools as well as in imitation of meaningless gestures. Apraxia is bilateral, explaining the cognitive motor disorders and occurs frequently (but not exclusively) after left hemispheric lesions, as well as in neurodegenerative diseases, such as corticobasal syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Apraxic deficits can seriously impair activities of daily living, which is why the appropriate diagnosis is of great relevance. At the functional anatomical level, different cognitive motor skills rely on at least partly different brain networks, namely, a ventral processing pathway for semantic components, such as tool-action associations, a ventro-dorsal pathway for sensorimotor representations of learnt motor acts, as well as a dorso-dorsal pathway for on-line motor control and, probably, imitation of meaningless gestures. While these networks partially overlap with language-relevant regions, more clear cut dissociations are found between apraxia deficits and disorders of spatial attention. In addition to behavioral interventions, noninvasive neuromodulation approaches, as well as human-computer interface assistance systems are a growing focus of interest for the treatment of apraxia.
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- M Martin
- Klinik für Neurologie und klinische Neurophysiologie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Breisacher Str. 64, 79106, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland.
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Exzellenzcluster, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutschland.
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- Lehrstuhl für Bewegungswissenschaft, Fakultät für Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland
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- Zentrum für Neurologie und Neurorehabilitation, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Schweiz
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- Kognitive Neurologie, Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Uniklinik Köln, Köln, Deutschland
- Kognitive Neurowissenschaften, Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Medizin (INM-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Deutschland
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Costini O, Roy A, Remigereau C, Faure S, Fossoud C, Le Gall D. Nature and Specificity of Gestural Disorder in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Multiple Case Study. Front Psychol 2017; 8:995. [PMID: 28725201 PMCID: PMC5495855 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aim: Praxis assessment in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is usually based on tests of adult apraxia, by comparing across types of gestures and input modalities. However, the cognitive models of adult praxis processing are rarely used in a comprehensive and critical interpretation. These models generally involve two systems: a conceptual system and a production system. Heterogeneity of deficits is consistently reported in DCD, involving other cognitive skills such as executive or visual-perceptual and visuospatial functions. Surprisingly, few researches examined the impact of these functions in gestural production. Our study aimed at discussing the nature and specificity of the gestural deficit in DCD using a multiple case study approach. Method: Tasks were selected and adapted from protocols proposed in adult apraxia, in order to enable a comprehensive assessment of gestures. This included conceptual tasks (knowledge about tool functions and actions; recognition of gestures), representational (transitive, intransitive), and non-representational gestures (imitation of meaningless postures). We realized an additional assessment of constructional abilities and other cognitive domains (executive functions, visual-perceptual and visuospatial functions). Data from 27 patients diagnosed with DCD were collected. Neuropsychological profiles were classified using an inferential clinical analysis based on the modified t-test, by comparison with 100 typically developing children divided into five age groups (from 7 to 13 years old). Results: Among the 27 DCD patients, we first classified profiles that are characterized by impairment in tasks assessing perceptual visual or visuospatial skills (n = 8). Patients with a weakness in executive functions (n = 6) were then identified, followed by those with an impaired performance in conceptual knowledge tasks (n = 4). Among the nine remaining patients, six could be classified as having a visual spatial/visual constructional dyspraxia. Gestural production deficits were variable between and within profiles. Discussion: This study confirmed the heterogeneity of gestural production deficit among children with a diagnosis of DCD, at both intra- and inter-individual levels. The contribution of other cognitive deficits in most of the profiles allows discussing the specificity of gestural difficulties. This argues in favor of the necessity to distinguish gestural problems with other deficits made apparent through gesture.
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- Orianne Costini
- Unité Vision & Cognition, Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de RothschildParis, France.,Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS UMR 8242, Centre Biomédical des Saints-Pères, Université Paris DescartesParis, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, EA4638, Université Nantes Angers Le MansNantes, France.,Centre de Référent des Troubles d'Apprentissage, Hôpital Mère-Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de NantesNantes, France.,Centre de Compétence Nantais de Neurofibromatose, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de NantesNantes, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, EA4638, Université Nantes Angers Le MansNantes, France.,Centre de Référent des Troubles d'Apprentissage, Hôpital Mère-Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de NantesNantes, France
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie et de Psychologie Cognitives et Sociales, EA 7278, Université Nice Sophia AntipolisNice, France
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- Centre de Référence des Troubles des Apprentissages, Hôpitaux Pédiatriques de Nice CHU-LenvalNice, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, EA4638, Université Nantes Angers Le MansNantes, France
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What is an affordance? 40 years later. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 77:403-417. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Fernandes HA, Park NW, Almeida QJ. Effects of practice and delays on learning and retention of skilled tool use in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2017; 96:230-239. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Revised: 01/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rethinking the Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Pantomime of Tool Use: Evidence from Alzheimer's Disease and Semantic Dementia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2017; 23:128-138. [PMID: 28205493 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617716000618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Pantomiming the use of familiar tools is a central test in the assessment of apraxia. However, surprisingly, the nature of the underlying cognitive mechanisms remains an unresolved issue. The aim of this study is to shed a new light on this issue by exploring the role of functional, mechanical, and manipulation knowledge in patients with Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia and apraxia of tool use. METHODS We performed multiple regression analyses with the global performance and the nature of errors (i.e., production and conception) made during a pantomime of tool use task in patients and control participants as dependent variables and tasks investigating functional, mechanical, and manipulation knowledge as predictors. RESULTS We found that mechanical problem solving, assessing mechanical knowledge, was a good predictor of the global performance of pantomime of tool use. We also found that occurrence of conception errors was robustly predicted by the task assessing functional knowledge whereas that of production errors was not explained by only one predictor. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that both functional and mechanical knowledge are important to pantomime the use of tools. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that mechanical knowledge plays a role in pantomime of tool use. Although impairment in pantomime of tool use tasks (i.e., apraxia) is widely explained by the disruption of manipulation knowledge, we propose that pantomime of tool use is a complex problem-solving task. (JINS, 2017, 23, 128-138).
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Osiurak F, Reynaud E, Navarro J, Lesourd M. Commentary: Effects of dividing attention on memory for declarative and procedural aspects of tool use. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1488. [PMID: 27746754 PMCID: PMC5040701 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonBron, France
- Institut Universitaire de FranceParis, France
- *Correspondence: François Osiurak
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonBron, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonBron, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonBron, France
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Baumard J, Lesourd M, Jarry C, Merck C, Etcharry-Bouyx F, Chauviré V, Belliard S, Moreaud O, Croisile B, Osiurak F, Le Gall D. Tool use disorders in neurodegenerative diseases: Roles of semantic memory and technical reasoning. Cortex 2016; 82:119-132. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2016] [Revised: 05/24/2016] [Accepted: 06/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Lesourd M, Baumard J, Jarry C, Le Gall D, Osiurak F. A cognitive-based model of tool use in normal aging. AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION 2016; 24:363-386. [PMID: 27685704 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2016.1218822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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While several cognitive domains have been widely investigated in the field of aging, the age-related effects on tool use are still an open issue and hardly any studies on tool use and aging is available. A significant body of literature has indicated that tool use skills might be supported by at least two different types of knowledge, namely, mechanical knowledge and semantic knowledge. However, neither the contribution of these kinds of knowledge to familiar tool use, nor the effects of aging on mechanical and semantic knowledge have been explored in normal aging. The aim of the present study was to fill this gap. To do so, 98 healthy elderly adults were presented with three tasks: a classical, familiar tool use task, a novel tool use task assessing mechanical knowledge, and a picture matching task assessing semantic knowledge. The results showed that aging has a negative impact on tool use tasks and on knowledge supporting tool use skills. We also found that aging did not impact mechanical and semantic knowledge in the same way, confirming the distinct nature of those forms of knowledge. Finally, our results stressed that mechanical and semantic knowledge are both involved in the ability to use familiar tools.
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- a Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082) , Université de Lyon , Lyon , France
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- b Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638) , Université d'Angers , Angers , France.,c Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie , Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers , Angers , France
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- b Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638) , Université d'Angers , Angers , France.,c Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie , Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers , Angers , France
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- b Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638) , Université d'Angers , Angers , France.,c Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie , Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers , Angers , France
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- a Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082) , Université de Lyon , Lyon , France.,d Institut Universitaire de France , Paris , France
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On the neurocognitive origins of human tool use : A critical review of neuroimaging data. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 64:421-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Revised: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Lesion correlates of impairments in actual tool use following unilateral brain damage. Neuropsychologia 2016; 84:167-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Revised: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We propose that an underestimated albeit fundamental mechanism in teaching behavior is perceptual resonance. With this mechanism, many animals, including humans, are able to learn from each other by sharing and processing relevant events in the environment. For teaching, we suggest a triadic principle involving the teacher, the learner, and the events to be learned from the world.
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Gomez A, Sirigu A. Developmental coordination disorder: core sensori-motor deficits, neurobiology and etiology. Neuropsychologia 2015; 79:272-87. [PMID: 26423663 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.09.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Revised: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Among developmental disorders, DCD is one of the least studied and less understood one (Bishop, 2010). This review summarizes the current understanding of developmental coordination disorder in neuropsychology with a focus mainly on high level sensorimotor impairments, its etiology and its neural bases. We summarize these core deficits in the framework of an influent motor control model (Blakemore et al., 2002). DCD has several environmental risk factors which probably interplay with genetic factors but those have not been sufficiently identified. High-level sensori-motor deficits are probably multifactorial in DCD and involve predictive coding deficits as well as weaknesses in perceptual and sensory integration. At the brain level, DCD is associated with impaired structure and functions within the motor network. Throughout the review we highlight exciting new findings as well as potential future lines of research to provide a more comprehensive understanding of this disorder.
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- Alice Gomez
- Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, UMR 5229, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ESPE, Lyon, France.
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- Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, UMR 5229, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron, France.
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Martin M, Beume L, Kümmerer D, Schmidt CSM, Bormann T, Dressing A, Ludwig VM, Umarova RM, Mader I, Rijntjes M, Kaller CP, Weiller C. Differential Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Streams for Conceptual and Production-Related Components of Tool Use in Acute Stroke Patients. Cereb Cortex 2015; 26:3754-71. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Osiurak F. Mechanical knowledge, but not manipulation knowledge, might support action prediction. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:737. [PMID: 25278867 PMCID: PMC4166253 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonBron Cedex, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Maison des UniversitésParis, France
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Jax SA, Rosa-Leyra DL, Buxbaum LJ. Conceptual- and production-related predictors of pantomimed tool use deficits in apraxia. Neuropsychologia 2014; 62:194-201. [PMID: 25107676 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Revised: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Apraxia following left hemisphere stroke disrupts pantomimed tool use (PTU), a task that requires the integrity of a number of cognitive and motor processes. Although previous studies have identified that apraxics have deficits in (1) the integrity of/access to stored tool-use gesture representations, (2) deficits in intrinsic (body-based) coordinate control, and (3) abnormal reliance on visual feedback, no study to date has simultaneously tested the relative contribution of these three deficits to poor PTU performance. In this study we assessed 38 chronic left hemisphere stroke survivors on tests of PTU and the 3 component processes. We then attempted to predict PTU with the component scores using hierarchical regression to control for overall stroke severity and the possibility of correlated component scores. Results showed that over half of the variability in PTU was predictable, with the strongest independent predictor being a test of intrinsic coordinate control without visual feedback. A test of the integrity of/access to stored representations also predicted PTU. These results confirm and extend previous claims that conceptual- and production-related factors affect PTU, even after considering that deficits in both factors are commonly observed to varying degrees in apraxic patients.
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- S A Jax
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, 50 Township Line Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA.
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- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, 50 Township Line Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA
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- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, 50 Township Line Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA
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Itaguchi Y, Fukuzawa K. Hand-use and tool-use in grasping control. Exp Brain Res 2014; 232:3613-22. [PMID: 25081103 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4053-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Yoshihiro Itaguchi
- Psychology Section, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 1-24-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8644, Japan,
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Apraxia – The cognitive side of motor control. Cortex 2014; 57:270-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Eidenmüller S, Randerath J, Goldenberg G, Li Y, Hermsdörfer J. The impact of unilateral brain damage on anticipatory grip force scaling when lifting everyday objects. Neuropsychologia 2014; 61:222-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2013] [Revised: 06/13/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Garcea FE, Mahon BZ. Parcellation of left parietal tool representations by functional connectivity. Neuropsychologia 2014; 60:131-43. [PMID: 24892224 PMCID: PMC4116796 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/26/2014] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Manipulating a tool according to its function requires the integration of visual, conceptual, and motor information, a process subserved in part by left parietal cortex. How these different types of information are integrated and how their integration is reflected in neural responses in the parietal lobule remains an open question. Here, participants viewed images of tools and animals during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). k-Means clustering over time series data was used to parcellate left parietal cortex into subregions based on functional connectivity to a whole brain network of regions involved in tool processing. One cluster, in the inferior parietal cortex, expressed privileged functional connectivity to the left ventral premotor cortex. A second cluster, in the vicinity of the anterior intraparietal sulcus, expressed privileged functional connectivity with the left medial fusiform gyrus. A third cluster in the superior parietal lobe expressed privileged functional connectivity with dorsal occipital cortex. Control analyses using Monte Carlo style permutation tests demonstrated that the clustering solutions were outside the range of what would be observed based on chance 'lumpiness' in random data, or mere anatomical proximity. Finally, hierarchical clustering analyses were used to formally relate the resulting parcellation scheme of left parietal tool representations to previous work that has parcellated the left parietal lobule on purely anatomical grounds. These findings demonstrate significant heterogeneity in the functional organization of manipulable object representations in left parietal cortex, and outline a framework that generates novel predictions about the causes of some forms of upper limb apraxia.
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- Frank E Garcea
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA; Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA; Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester, USA.
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Badets A, Osiurak F. A goal-based mechanism for delayed motor intention: considerations from motor skills, tool use and action memory. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2014; 79:345-60. [PMID: 24913016 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-014-0581-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Thinking about our behaviors for a future recall like playing a piano sonata during the next weekend (i.e., delayed motor intention) should engage at some level sensorimotor-based representations. Theoretically, such representations can be stored through both an action- and a goal-based mechanism. An action-based mechanism is related to the specific motor sequence of fingers like the key presses on the piano, and a goal-based mechanism is related to the musical tones generated by the key presses. From these considerations, the present article tries to explore whether the cognitive nature of delayed motor intention is more based on an action or goal mechanism. We reviewed empirical evidence and theoretical accounts of different domains such as motor skills, tool use, and action memory supporting the idea that such delayed motor intentions are rather represented through a goal-based mechanism. The specific role of this goal-based mechanism is to envision the future in an implementation-neutral mode to flexibly and efficiently retrieve an adapted action to environmental constraints. This goal-based account offers an interesting alternative to reshape the classical models about the representations of delayed motor intention. We also discuss how this account can be applied to practical activities in daily life situations.
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- Arnaud Badets
- Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, CeRCA, CNRS UMR-7295, MSHS. Bât A5, 5, rue Théodore Lefebvre, 86000, Poitiers, France,
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Osiurak F, Lesourd M. What about mechanical knowledge? Phys Life Rev 2014; 11:269-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Baumard J, Osiurak F, Lesourd M, Le Gall D. Tool use disorders after left brain damage. Front Psychol 2014; 5:473. [PMID: 24904487 PMCID: PMC4033127 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In this paper we review studies that investigated tool use disorders in left-brain damaged (LBD) patients over the last 30 years. Four tasks are classically used in the field of apraxia: Pantomime of tool use, single tool use, real tool use and mechanical problem solving. Our aim was to address two issues, namely, (1) the role of mechanical knowledge in real tool use and (2) the cognitive mechanisms underlying pantomime of tool use, a task widely employed by clinicians and researchers. To do so, we extracted data from 36 papers and computed the difference between healthy subjects and LBD patients. On the whole, pantomime of tool use is the most difficult task and real tool use is the easiest one. Moreover, associations seem to appear between pantomime of tool use, real tool use and mechanical problem solving. These results suggest that the loss of mechanical knowledge is critical in LBD patients, even if all of those tasks (and particularly pantomime of tool use) might put differential demands on semantic memory and working memory.
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- Josselin Baumard
- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Université d'Angers Angers, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Institut de Psychologie, Université Lyon 2 Bron, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Institut de Psychologie, Université Lyon 2 Bron, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Université d'Angers Angers, France ; Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers Angers, France
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Osiurak F, Wagner C, Djerbi S, Navarro J. To do it or to let an automatic tool do it? The priority of control over effort. Exp Psychol 2014; 60:453-68. [PMID: 23895922 DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The aim of the present study is to provide experimental data relevant to the issue of what leads humans to use automatic tools. Two answers can be offered. The first is that humans strive to minimize physical and/or cognitive effort (principle of least effort). The second is that humans tend to keep their perceived control over the environment (principle of more control). These two factors certainly play a role, but the question raised here is to what do people give priority in situations wherein both manual and automatic actions take the same time - minimizing effort or keeping perceived control? To answer that question, we built four experiments in which participants were confronted with a recurring choice between performing a task manually (physical effort) or in a semi-automatic way (cognitive effort) versus using an automatic tool that completes the task for them (no effort). In this latter condition, participants were required to follow the progression of the automatic tool step by step. Our results showed that participants favored the manual or semi-automatic condition over the automatic condition. However, when they were offered the opportunity to perform recreational tasks in parallel, the shift toward manual condition disappeared. The findings give support to the idea that people give priority to keeping control over minimizing effort.
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Institut de Psychologie, Université Lyon 2, France
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van Elk M. The left inferior parietal lobe represents stored hand-postures for object use and action prediction. Front Psychol 2014; 5:333. [PMID: 24795681 PMCID: PMC4005943 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 03/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Action semantics enables us to plan actions with objects and to predict others' object-directed actions as well. Previous studies have suggested that action semantics are represented in a fronto-parietal action network that has also been implicated to play a role in action observation. In the present fMRI study it was investigated how activity within this network changes as a function of the predictability of an action involving multiple objects and requiring the use of action semantics. Participants performed an action prediction task in which they were required to anticipate the use of a centrally presented object that could be moved to an associated target object (e.g., hammer—nail). The availability of actor information (i.e., presenting a hand grasping the central object) and the number of possible target objects (i.e., 0, 1, or 2 target objects) were independently manipulated, resulting in different levels of predictability. It was found that making an action prediction based on actor information resulted in an increased activation in the extrastriate body area (EBA) and the fronto-parietal action observation network (AON). Predicting actions involving a target object resulted in increased activation in the bilateral IPL and frontal motor areas. Within the AON, activity in the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and the left premotor cortex (PMC) increased as a function of the level of action predictability. Together these findings suggest that the left IPL represents stored hand-postures that can be used for planning object-directed actions and for predicting other's actions as well.
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- Michiel van Elk
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Osiurak F. Apraxia of tool use is not a matter of affordances. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:890. [PMID: 24391576 PMCID: PMC3868885 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de LyonLyon, France
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Tool use and manual actions: the human body as a means versus an end. Cortex 2013; 57:281-2; discussion 306-8. [PMID: 24332293 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Osiurak F, Badets A. Pliers, not fingers: tool-action effect in a motor intention paradigm. Cognition 2013; 130:66-73. [PMID: 24184395 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Revised: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 09/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Tool-use representations have been suggested to be supported by the representation of hand actions and/or by the representation of tool actions. A major issue is to know which one of these two representations is preferentially activated when people intend to use a tool. To address this issue, we developed a paradigm in which, in 20% of trials, participants had to press a button and actually use pliers to move an object in response to a predefined target symbol. Importantly, two masks hiding the symbols performed "opening" or "closing" actions before symbols appeared. In Experiment 1, participants used normal pliers: Hand's opening actions induced pliers' opening actions and vice versa for hands' closing actions. Results indicated a compatibility effect between masks' actions and pliers' actions. Participants were faster to press the button in response to the target symbol when opening and closing actions of the masks were congruent with the corresponding actions of the hand. In Experiment 2 participants used inverse pliers: Hand's opening actions involved pliers' closing actions and vice versa. In this situation, results showed that the congruency of masks' actions occurred with pliers' actions and not hand's actions. Altogether, these findings demonstrate that intention of use is preferentially based on the representation of tool actions, and have important implications for the domain of neuropsychology of tool use and the theories of goal-directed behavior.
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, France.
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