<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michael A. Arbib</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dorothy M. Fragaszy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Susan D. Healy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dietrich Stout</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tooling and Construction: From Nut-Cracking and Stone-Tool Making to Bird Nests and Language</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Current Research in Behavioral Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acheulean tool making</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">bird nest construction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">capuchin nut cracking</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">construction (additive/subtractive)</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">hafted tools</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">image and assemblage</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">language evolution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mirror system hypothesis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">motor programs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oldowan tool making</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pantomime</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">postconditions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">preconditions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">technological pedagogy hypothesis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tool use</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tooling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">“how” versus “what”</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666518223000268</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">100121</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The present paper provides an integrative theory of actions and motor programs for skill in tool use, construction, and language. We analyze preconditions for action as well as making their effects (postconditions) explicit, emphasizing the “how” of action details as well as the “what” of motor programs, aided by conceptual analysis of several brain modeling efforts. The theory is exemplified by analysis of the subtractive construction involved in percussive tooling by capuchin monkeys and Oldowan and Acheulean stone tool making by protohumans before turning to the additive construction of hafted tools. A complementary analysis focused on the construction of bird nests explores the notion of “image” and “stage” in construction. We offer a brief comparison with birdsong before arguing for a very different relation between communication and construction in humans. Pantomime lifts manipulation from practical to communicative action in protohumans, and we consider the role of pedagogy before offering hypotheses on the emergence of human language that suggest how language may have evolved from manual skills. We note that language provides an open-ended means for devising innovations in tool use and construction, but reiterate the importance of this framework for diverse future studies in ethology and comparative psychology.&lt;/p&gt;
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