Journal
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 3-4, Pages 241-256Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2016.1188798
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Tool; tool-use; action; semantic representation; meta-analysis
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI grant [JP12J05850]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad [H27-612]
- Medical Research Council (MRC) programme grant [MR/J004146/1]
- MRC [MR/J004146/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/J004146/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The ability to recognize and use a variety of tools is an intriguing human cognitive function. Multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated neural activations with various types of tool-related tasks. In the present paper, we reviewed tool-related neural activations reported in 70 contrasts from 56 neuroimaging studies and performed a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses to identify tool-related cortical circuits dedicated either to general tool knowledge or to task-specific processes. The results indicate the following: (a) Common, task-general processing regions for tools are located in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and ventral premotor cortex; and (b) task-specific regions are located in superior parietal lobule (SPL) and dorsal premotor area for imagining/executing actions with tools and in bilateral occipito-temporal cortex for recognizing/naming tools. The roles of these regions in task-general and task-specific activities are discussed with reference to evidence from neuropsychology, experimental psychology and other neuroimaging studies.
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