Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of early hominin stone tool use through an experimental EEG approach
Simona Affinito, Brienna Eteson, Lourdes Tamayo Cáceres, Elena Theresa Moos, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis · 2024
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Description
Simona Affinito and co-authors use brain wave reads to probe how early kin of humans used stone tools. The study appeared in 2024. Tool craft drove much of our line's growth, but tool use got less brain care than tool make. Two acts sit in view, hard hits and fine cuts.
Hits with a hand stone were shared with apes and mark the first tool claims. Cuts with a flake are a lone human kin act tied to a known old culture. Both acts lit front and side brain zones. Flake cuts lit those zones more, most in the aim step. The team ties plain brain shifts to fine tool use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Simona Affinito, Brienna Eteson, Lourdes Tamayo Cáceres, Elena Theresa Moos, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |