Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools

by Christopher Baber and Chris Barber

The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and explain differences in human and animal tool use from the perspective of cognitive science.

Our understanding needs to be grounded upon research into how people use tools, which draws upon many disciplines,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367454475
• ISBN13: 9780367454470
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"