Human see, human do? Viewing tool pictures evokes tool-use action information in hand-selective occipitotemporal cortex
Annie Warman, Diana Tonin, Fraser W. Smith, Stéphanie Rossit
This study investigates whether viewing tool pictures activates neural representations of tool-use actions in brain regions associated with hand-selective processing, finding that action-related information is present but not shared across perception and action tasks.
bioRxiv · Sep 21, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience