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Comment
. 2020 Aug 10:43:e170.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000138.

Missing in action: Tool use is action based

Jeffrey J Lockman  1 , Catherine S Tamis-LeMonda  2 , Karen E Adolph  3
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Missing in action: Tool use is action based

Jeffrey J Lockman et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

In this commentary on Osiurak and Reynaud's target article, we argue that action is largely missing in their account of the ascendance of human technological culture. We propose that an action-based developmental account can help to bridge the cognitive-sociocultural divide in explanations of the discovery, production, and cultural transmission of human tool use.

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