Insights from kinematic analysis of pantomime and actual use for the hierarchical organization of tool use actions

AbstractObjectives: Exploring the nature of defective pantomime in apraxia. Methods: Critical review of behavioral associations and dissociations between defective pantomime, imitation of gestures, and real tool use. Analysis of congruencies between crucial lesions for pantomime, imitation, and tool use. Results: There are behavioral double dissociations between pantomime and imitation, and their cerebral substrates show very little overlap. Whereas defective pantomime is bound to temporal and inferior frontal lesions, imitation is mainly affected by parietal lesions. Pantomime usually replicates the motor actions of real use but on scrutiny there are important differences between the movements of real use and of pantomime that cast doubt on the assumption that pantomime is produced by the same motor programs as actual use. A more plausible proposal posits that pantomime is a communicative gesture that uses manual actions for conveying information about objects and their use. The manual actions are constructed by selection and combination of distinctive features of tools and actions. They frequently include replications of characteristic motor actions of real use, but the main criterion for selection and modification of features is the comprehensibility of the gestures rather than the accurate replication of the motor actions of real use. Conclusions: Pantomime of tool use is a communicative gesture rather than a replication of the motor actions of real use. (JINS, 2017, 23, 121–127)

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Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x00071235 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 531-551 ◽

Cited By ~ 456

Author(s):

Patricia M. Greenfield

Keyword(s):

Tool Use ◽

Language Production ◽

Neural Circuits ◽

Human Life ◽

Hierarchical Organization ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Evolution Of Language ◽

Hierarchical Complexity ◽

Neural Substrate

AbstractDuring the first two years of human life a common neural substrate (roughly Broca's area) underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as the capacity to combine objects manually, including tool use. Subsequent cortical differentiation, beginning at age two, creates distinct, relatively modularized capacities for linguistic grammar and more complex combination of objects. An evolutionary homologue of the neural substrate for language production and manual action is hypothesized to have provided a foundation for the evolution of language before the divergence of the hominids and the great apes. Support comes from the discovery of a Broca's area homologue and related neural circuits in contemporary primates. In addition, chimpanzees have an identical constraint on hierarchical complexity in both tool use and symbol combination. Their performance matches that of the two-year-old child who has not yet developed the neural circuits for complex grammar and complex manual combination of objects.

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From pantomime to actual use: How affordances can facilitate actual tool-use

Neuropsychologia ◽

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.017 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 49 (9) ◽

pp. 2410-2416 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Jennifer Randerath ◽

Georg Goldenberg ◽

Will Spijkers ◽

Yong Li ◽

Joachim Hermsdörfer

Keyword(s):

Tool Use ◽

Actual Use

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Motor imagery of tool use: relationship to actual use and adherence to Fitts’ law across tasks

Experimental Brain Research ◽

10.1007/s00221-012-3004-0 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 218 (2) ◽

pp. 169-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Kristen L. Macuga ◽

Athan P. Papailiou ◽

Scott H. Frey

Keyword(s):

Motor Imagery ◽

Tool Use ◽

Fitts Law ◽

Actual Use

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Kinematic Approximations in TED and RHEED Analysis of Reconstructed Surfaces

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100135587 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 396-397

Author(s):

L. -M. Peng ◽

M. J. Whelan

Keyword(s):

Electron Diffraction ◽

Kinematic Analysis ◽

Incident Beam ◽

High Energy ◽

Energy Electron ◽

Great Success ◽

High Energy Electron ◽

Kinematic Approximation ◽

Reconstructed Surfaces

In recent years there has been a trend in the structure determination of reconstructed surfaces to use high energy electron diffraction techniques, and to employ a kinematic approximation in analyzing the intensities of surface superlattice reflections. Experimentally this is motivated by the great success of the determination of the dimer adatom stacking fault (DAS) structure of the Si(111) 7 × 7 reconstructed surface.While in the case of transmission electron diffraction (TED) the validity of the kinematic approximation has been examined by using multislice calculations for Si and certain incident beam directions, far less has been done in the reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) case. In this paper we aim to provide a thorough Bloch wave analysis of the various diffraction processes involved, and to set criteria on the validity for the kinematic analysis of the intensities of the surface superlattice reflections.The validity of the kinematic analysis, being common to both the TED and RHEED case, relies primarily on two underlying observations, namely (l)the surface superlattice scattering in the selvedge is kinematically dominating, and (2)the superlattice diffracted beams are uncoupled from the fundamental diffracted beams within the bulk.

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Kinematic analysis of handbike propulsion in various gear ratios: Implications for joint pain

Yearbook of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery ◽

10.1016/s1551-7977(08)70244-9 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2007 ◽

pp. 57-58

Author(s):

K. Bengtson

Keyword(s):

Kinematic Analysis ◽

Joint Pain

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Trust in Management Information Systems (MIS)

Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O ◽

10.1026/0932-4089/a000306 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 6-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Sarah M. Meeßen ◽

Meinald T. Thielsch ◽

Guido Hertel

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Information Overload ◽

Management Information Systems ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Future Research ◽

Management Information ◽

Trust In Management ◽

Actual Use ◽

Trust In Technology ◽

The Internet Of Things

Abstract. Digitalization, enhanced storage capacities, and the Internet of Things increase the volume of data in modern organizations. To process and make use of these data and to avoid information overload, management information systems (MIS) are introduced that collect, process, and analyze relevant data. However, a precondition for the application of MIS is that users trust them. Extending accounts of trust in automation and trust in technology, we introduce a new model of trust in MIS that addresses the conceptual ambiguities of existing conceptualizations of trust and integrates initial empirical work in this field. In doing so, we differentiate between perceived trustworthiness of an MIS, experienced trust in an MIS, intentions to use an MIS, and actual use of an MIS. Moreover, we consider users’ perceived risks and contextual factors (e. g., autonomy at work) as moderators. The introduced model offers guidelines for future research and initial suggestions to foster trust-based MIS use.

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