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Causal beliefs lead to toolmaking, which require handedness for motor control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert*
Affiliation:
Anatomy Department, University College London, LondonWC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Abstract:

Toolmaking requires motor skills that in turn require handedness, so that there is no competition between the two sides of the brain. Thus, handedness is not necessarily linked to vocalization but to the origin of causal beliefs required for making complex tools. Language may have evolved from these processes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 242
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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