Chris Baber

Tool use as distributed cognition: how tools help, hinder and define manual skill.

Frontiers in Psychology 2014 Chris Baber, Manish Parekh, Tulin G Cengiz

Our thesis in this paper is that, in order to appreciate the interplay between cognitive (goal-directed) and physical performance in tool use, it is necessary to determine the role that representations play in the use of tools. We argue that rather being solely a matter of internal (mental) representation, tool use makes use of the external representations that define the...