An area specifically devoted to tool use in human left inferior parietal lobule.
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.
Department of Neuroscience, Parma University, Parma, 43100              Italy.
Guy A
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Orban
Giacomo
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Rizzolatti
D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013672:Technology; D053001:Tool Use Behavior