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. 2012 Aug;35(4):234.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001944. Epub 2012 Jun 15.

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

Guy A Orban  1 , Giacomo Rizzolatti
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An area specifically devoted to tool use in human left inferior parietal lobule

Guy A Orban et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

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.

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