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    Language as a Tool: Motor Proficiency Using a Tool Predicts Individual Linguistic Abilities.Claudio Brozzoli, Alice C. Roy, Linda H. Lidborg & Martin Lövdén - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
    Different disciplines converge to trace language evolution from motor skills. The human ability to use tools has been advocated as a fundamental step toward the emergence of linguistic processes in the brain. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging research has established that linguistic functions and tool-use are mediated by partially overlapping brain networks. Yet, scholars still theoretically debate whether the relationship between tool-use and language is contingent or functionally relevant, since empirical evidence is critically missing. Here, we measured both linguistic production and tool-use (...)
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    Close to me: Multisensory space representations for action and pre-reflexive consciousness of oneself-in-the-world.Dorothée Legrand, Claudio Brozzoli, Yves Rossetti & Alessandro Farnè - 2007 - Consciousness and Cognition 16 (3):687-699.
    Philosophical considerations as well as several recent studies from neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and psychophysics converged in showing that the peripersonal space is structured in a body-centred manner and represented through integrated sensory inputs. Multisensory representations may deserve the function of coding peripersonal space for avoiding or interacting with objects. Neuropsychological evidence is reviewed for dynamic interactions between space representations and action execution, as revealed by the behavioural effects that the use of a tool, as a physical extension of the reachable space, (...)
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    Proprioception Is Necessary for Body Schema Plasticity: Evidence from a Deafferented Patient.Lucilla Cardinali, Claudio Brozzoli, Jacques Luauté, Alice C. Roy & Alessandro Farnè - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10:203749.
    The ability of using a large variety of tools is important in our daily life. Behind human tool-use abilities lays the brain capacity to incorporate tools into the body representation for action (Body Schema, BS), thought to rely mainly on proprioceptive information. Here we tested whether tool incorporation is possible in absence of proprioception by studying a patient with right upper-limb deafferentation. We adopted a paradigm sensitive to changes of the Body Schema and analysed the kinematics of free-hand movements before (...)
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    Divide et impera? Towards integrated multisensory perception and action.Claudio Brozzoli, Alessandro Farnè & Yves Rossetti - 2007 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (2):202-203.
    A visual analogue, two-route model of somatosensory processing is advanced in this commentary. Touch for perception is seen as separate from, although interconnected with, touch for action. Separate modules are additionally proposed for internal (body) and external (object-related) somatosensation. Here we ask whether dissociation (divide) guarantees better efficiency (impera) in terms of the heuristic model within the somatosensory modality and across modalities.
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    Neglect “around the clock”: Dissociating number and spatial neglect in right brain damage.Yves Rossetti, Sophie Jacquin-Courtois, Marilena Aiello, Masami Ishihara, Claudio Brozzoli & Fabrizio Doricchi - 2011 - In Stanislas Dehaene & Elizabeth Brannon (eds.), Space, Time and Number in the Brain: Searching for the Foundations of Mathematical Thought. Oxford University Press.
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    Aim and Plausibility of Action Chains Remap Peripersonal Space.Irene Senna, Lucilla Cardinali, Alessandro Farnè & Claudio Brozzoli - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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