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Tool Use and Causal Cognition (Hardcover)
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Tool Use and Causal Cognition (Hardcover)
Series: Consciousness & Self-Consciousness Series
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What cognitive abilities underpin the use of tools, and how are
tools and their properties represented or understood by tool-users?
Does the study of tool use provide us with a unique or distinctive
source of information about the causal cognition of tool-users?
Tool use is a topic of major interest to all those interested in
animal cognition, because it implies that the animal has knowledge
of the relationship between objects and their effects. There are
countless examples of animals developing tools to achieve some
goal-chimps sharpening sticks to use as spears, bonobos using
sticks to fish for termites, and New Caledonian crows developing
complex tools to extracts insects from logs. Studies of tool use
have been used to examine an exceptionally wide range of aspects of
cognition, such as planning, problem-solving and insight, naive
physics, social relationship between action and perception. A key
debate in recent research on animal cognition concerns the level of
cognitive sophistication that is implied by animal tool use, and
developmental psychologists have been addressing related questions
regarding the processes through which children acquire the ability
to use tools. In neuropsychology, patterns of impairments in tool
use due to brain damage, and studies of neural changes associated
with tool use, have also led to debates about the different types
of cognitive abilities that might underpin tool use, and about how
tool use may change the way space or the body is represented. Tool
Use and Causal Cognition provides a new interdisciplinary
perspective on these issues with contributions from leading
psychologists studying tool use and philosophers providing new
analyses of the nature of causal understanding A ground-breaking
volume which covers several disciplines, this volume will be of
interest to psychologists, including animal researchers and
developmental psychologists as well as philosophers, and
neuroscientists.
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