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Article Dans Une Revue Perspectives on Psychological Science Année : 2020

Technition: When Tools Come Out of the Closet

François Osiurak
Jordan Navarro
Emanuelle Reynaud

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People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go. Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be a major topic of the cognitive sciences. Surprisingly, however, scientists are not interested in this topic or address it only marginally in other mainstream domains (e.g., motor control, action observation, social cognition). In fact, this lack of interest may hinder our understanding of the necessary neurocognitive skills underlying our appetence for transforming our physical environment. Here, we develop the thesis that our technical mind originates in perhaps uniquely human neurocognitive skills, namely, technical-reasoning skills involving the area PF within the left inferior parietal lobe. This thesis creates an epistemological rupture with the state of the art that justifies the emergence of a new field in the cognitive sciences (i.e., technition) dedicated to the intelligence hidden behind tools and other forms of technologies, including constructions.

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hal-03648072 , version 1 (21-04-2022)

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François Osiurak, Mathieu Lesourd, Jordan Navarro, Emanuelle Reynaud. Technition: When Tools Come Out of the Closet. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020, 15 (4), pp.880-897. ⟨10.1177/1745691620902145⟩. ⟨hal-03648072⟩

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