"Tool Use Behavior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Modifying, carrying, or manipulating an item external to itself by an animal, before using it to effect a change on the environment or itself (from Beck, Animal Tool Behavior, 1980).
| Descriptor ID |
D053001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.840
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| Concept/Terms |
Tool Use Behavior- Tool Use Behavior
- Behavior, Tool Use
- Behaviors, Tool Use
- Tool Use Behaviors
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tool Use Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Innovative multi-material tool use in the pant-hoot display of a chimpanzee. Sci Rep. 2022 11 29; 12(1):20605.
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Phenotypic and genetic associations between gray matter covariation and tool use skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Repeatability in two genetically isolated populations. Neuroimage. 2022 08 15; 257:119292.
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Heritability in corpus callosum morphology and its association with tool use skill in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Reproducibility in two genetically isolated populations. Genes Brain Behav. 2022 02; 21(2):e12784.
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Heritability of Gray Matter Structural Covariation and Tool Use Skills in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): A Source-Based Morphometry and Quantitative Genetic Analysis. Cereb Cortex. 2019 08 14; 29(9):3702-3711.
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Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca's area and the motor hand area of the precentral gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behav Brain Res. 2017 02 01; 318:71-81.
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Robust retention and transfer of tool construction techniques in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). J Comp Psychol. 2016 Feb; 130(1):24-35.
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The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use. Behav Processes. 2015 Mar; 112:120-9.
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Bipedal tool use strengthens chimpanzee hand preferences. J Hum Evol. 2010 Mar; 58(3):234-41.
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A potent effect of observational learning on chimpanzee tool construction. Proc Biol Sci. 2009 Sep 22; 276(1671):3377-83.
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Grounding object concepts in perception and action: evidence from fMRI studies of tools. Cortex. 2007 Apr; 43(3):461-8.