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  1. Exclusion by donkey’s ears: Donkeys (Equus asinus) use acoustic information to find hidden food in a two-way object-choice task.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  2. Imitation of meaningless gestures in normal aging

    Article • Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Chrystelle Remigereau, Dr François Osiurak

  3. The castaway island: Distinct roles of theory of mind and technical reasoning in cumulative technological culture.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, May 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  4. Effect of object substitution, spontaneous compensation and repetitive training on reaching movements in a patient with optic ataxia

    Article • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Chrystelle Remigereau, Dr François Osiurak

  5. Tool use in left-brain-damaged patients: Difficulties in reasoning but not in estimating the physical properties of objects.

    Article • Neuropsychology, March 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  6. Looking for intoolligence: A unified framework for the cognitive study of human tool use and technology.

    Article • American Psychologist, February 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  7. Novel Tool Selection in Left Brain-Damaged Patients With Apraxia of Tool Use: A Study of Three Cases

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr François Osiurak

  8. Cognitive paleoanthropology and technology: Toward a parsimonious theory (PATH).

    Article • Review of General Psychology, December 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  9. Tool use and manual actions: The human body as a means versus an end

    Article • Cortex, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  10. A goal-based mechanism for delayed motor intention: considerations from motor skills, tool use and action memory

    Article • Psychological Research, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  11. What about mechanical knowledge?

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  12. Tool use disorders after left brain damage

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2014, Frontiers

    Dr François Osiurak

  13. What Neuropsychology Tells us About Human Tool Use? The Four Constraints Theory (4CT): Mechanics, Space, Time, and Effort

    Article • Neuropsychology Review, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  14. Pliers, not fingers: Tool-action effect in a motor intention paradigm

    Article • Cognition, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  15. L’expérience fraternelle confrontée à la déficience intellectuelle

    Article • Pratiques Psychologiques, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  16. Apraxia of tool use: More evidence for the technical reasoning hypothesis

    Article • Cortex, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  17. Limb apraxia in neurodegenerative disorders

    Article • Neurodegenerative Disease Management, August 2013, Future Medicine

    Dr François Osiurak

  18. Apraxia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Review and Perspectives

    Article • Neuropsychology Review, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  19. Mechanical problem-solving strategies in left-brain damaged patients and apraxia of tool use

    Article • Neuropsychologia, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  20. Handing a tool to someone can take more time than using it

    Article • Cognition, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  21. L’appropriation de l’espace chez les personnes âgées dépendantes résidants en EHPAD

    Article • Pratiques Psychologiques, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  22. Getting a tool gives wings: overestimation of tool-related benefits in a motor imagery task and a decision task

    Article • Psychological Research, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  23. Apraxia and Alzheimer's disease: Review and perspectives

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  24. Apraxia of tool use is not a matter of affordances

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr François Osiurak

  25. To Do It or to Let an Automatic Tool Do It?

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), January 2013, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr François Osiurak

  26. Within reach but not so reachable: Obstacles matter in visual perception of distances

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  27. Parcourir la ville sans voir : effet de l’environnement urbain sur la perception et le ressenti des personnes aveugles lors d’un déplacement in situ

    Article • L’Année psychologique, July 2012, Editions NecPlus

    Dr François Osiurak

  28. Make a gesture and I will tell you what you are miming. Pantomime recognition in healthy subjects

    Article • Cortex, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  29. Tool use and perceived distance: when unreachable becomes spontaneously reachable

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Osiurak

  30. Les apraxies : synthèse et nouvelles perspectives

    Article • Revue de neuropsychologie, January 2012, CAIRN

    Dr François Osiurak

  31. Re-examining the gesture engram hypothesis. New perspectives on apraxia of tool use

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  32. Why do we use tools? Insights from neuropsychology and experimental psychology

    Article • January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  33. Utilization behavior: Clinical and theoretical approaches

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr François Osiurak

  34. Grasping the affordances, understanding the reasoning: Toward a dialectical theory of human tool use.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr François Osiurak

  35. Unusual use of objects after unilateral brain damage. The technical reasoning model

    Article • Cortex, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  36. Different constraints on grip selection in brain-damaged patients: Object use versus object transport

    Article • Neuropsychologia, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr François Osiurak

  37. Object utilization and object usage: A single-case study

    Article • Neurocase, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Osiurak