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Just a tool after all? No evidence for tool-use effects on the body representation across virtual and real environments

Creator:

Bell, Joshua D.

Abstract:

While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...

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Dissertation

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interacting with a foreign object, they report acting as a cohesive unit. Within this unit, the cognitive