Ishibashi Ryo, Pobric Gorana, Saito Satoru, Lambon Ralph Matthew A
a Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences , University of Manchester , Manchester , UK.
b Human Brain Research Center, School of Medicine , Kyoto University , Kyoto , Japan.
Cogn Neuropsychol. 2016 May-Jun;33(3-4):241-56. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2016.1188798. Epub 2016 Jun 30.
The ability to recognize and use a variety of tools is an intriguing human cognitive function. Multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated neural activations with various types of tool-related tasks. In the present paper, we reviewed tool-related neural activations reported in 70 contrasts from 56 neuroimaging studies and performed a series of activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses to identify tool-related cortical circuits dedicated either to general tool knowledge or to task-specific processes. The results indicate the following: (a) Common, task-general processing regions for tools are located in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and ventral premotor cortex; and (b) task-specific regions are located in superior parietal lobule (SPL) and dorsal premotor area for imagining/executing actions with tools and in bilateral occipito-temporal cortex for recognizing/naming tools. The roles of these regions in task-general and task-specific activities are discussed with reference to evidence from neuropsychology, experimental psychology and other neuroimaging studies.
识别和使用各种工具的能力是一种引人入胜的人类认知功能。多项神经影像学研究已对与各种工具相关任务的神经激活进行了调查。在本文中，我们回顾了56项神经影像学研究中70个对比所报告的与工具相关的神经激活情况，并进行了一系列激活可能性估计（ALE）元分析，以确定专门用于一般工具知识或特定任务过程的与工具相关的皮质回路。结果表明：（a）工具的通用、任务一般处理区域位于左顶下小叶（IPL）和腹侧运动前区皮质；（b）特定任务区域位于顶叶上小叶（SPL）和背侧运动前区，用于想象/执行使用工具的动作，以及位于双侧枕颞叶皮质，用于识别/命名工具。结合神经心理学、实验心理学和其他神经影像学研究的证据，讨论了这些区域在任务一般和特定任务活动中的作用。
