Publications

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• Osiurak, F. (2022). S’initier à la psychologie scientifique dès le lycée. L’Harmattan.

• Osiurak, F. (2020). The Tool Instinct. Wiley Press.

• Osiurak, F. (2019). L’Instinct de l’Outil. ISTE Press.

• Osiurak, F. (2016). Apraxie et troubles d’utilisation d’outils. Presses Universitaires de France.

• Osiurak, F. (2010). Relations entre outil, geste et usage: Apports de la neuropsychologie. Saarbrücken: Editions Universitaires Européennes.

• Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M., & Baumard, J. (2024). Comment nous fabriquons mentalement nos outils. In Y. Coello (Ed.), Corps, cerveau et processus mentaux: Les fondements sensorimoteurs de la cognition (pp. 287-298). Paris: Dunod.

• Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2024). Affordance and tool use: A neurocognitive approach. In M. Mangalam, A. Hajnal, & D. G. Kelty-Stephen (Eds.), The modern legacy of Gibson’s affordances for the sciences of organisms (pp. 232-248). New York: Routledge.

• Baumard, J., Osiurak, F., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Le Gall, D., & Lesourd, M. (2023). Les apraxies: Évaluation, interpretation et corrélats anatomo-cliniques. In E. Barbeau, P. Azouvi, H. Amieva, & F. Colette (Eds.), Traité de neuropsychologie clinique de l’adulte, 3ème Edition (pp. 497-525). Paris: De Boeck Supérieur.

• Osiurak, F. (2023). Les objets techniques en sciences cognitives. In T. Gaubert, B. Cuvillier, É. Leblanc, & S. Rouat (Eds.), La méthode de l’objet technique: Reprendre la main sur l'activité (pp. 105-112). Toulouse: Octarès Éditions.

• Federico, G., & Osiurak, F. (2023). Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture. In E. Bruner (Ed.), Cognitive archaeology, body cognition, and the evolution of visuospatial perception (pp. 109-130). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

• Osiurak, F., Bryche, C., Bluet, A., & Reynaud, E. (2023). From technical reasoning to cumulative technological culture. In T. Wynn, K. Overmann, & F. Coolidge (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive archaeology (pp. C9.S1-C9-S20). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Osiurak, F., Baumard, J., Merck, C., & Lesourd, M. (2022). The meaning of tools: The pragmatic value of semantic knowledge. In A. M. García, A. Ibáñez (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of semiosis and the brain (pp. 359-374). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

• Faure, F., Osiurak, F., & Joulain, M. (2015). Validation en langue française des échelles de maximation et de regret. Berlin: Editions Universitaires Européennes.

• Le Gall, D., Osiurak, F., & Etcharry-Bouyx, F. (2014). Les apraxies: Formes cliniques, modèles théoriques et méthode d’évaluation. In X. Seron, & M. Van der Linden (Eds.), Traité de neuropsychologie clinique, 2ème Edition (pp. 411-432). Paris: De Boeck-Solal.

• Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2012). Apraxia: Clinical types, theoretical models, and evaluation. In T. Heinbockel (Ed.), Neuroscience (pp. 69-92). InTech.

In press

• Bluet, A., Reynaud, E., Federico, G., Bryche, C., Lesourd, M., Fournel, A., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., & Osiurak, F. (in press). The technical-reasoning network is recruited when people observe others make or teach how to make tools: An fMRI study. iScience.

• Baumard, J., & Osiurak, F. (in press). Approche neuropsychologique des relations entre corps, raisonnement technique et technologies. Interfaces.

• Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Bryche, C., Bluet, A., Metaireau, M., Tran, E., Brogniart, J., & Claidière, N. (in press). The role of explanation in the evolution of technology. American Journal of Psychology.

• Gaujoux, V., Reynaud, E., & Osiurak, F. (in press). Media multitasking, interference management under uncertainty and fluid intelligence: Indicators of performance and flexibility under chosen vs forced task interference. Psychology of Popular Media.

• Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Fournel, A., Gaujoux, V., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., & Lesourd, M. (in press). Shaping the physical world to our ends: The left PF technical-cognition area. eLife (Reviewed Preprint).

• Baumard, J., Laniepce, A., Lesourd, M., Guezouli, L., Beaucousin, V., Gehin, M., Osiurak, F., & Bartolo, A. (in press). The neurocognitive bases of meaningful intransitive gestures: A quantitative review and meta-analysis of neuropsychological studies. Neuropsychology Review.

2025

• Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Cavaliere, C., Tramontano, L., Ilardi, C. R., Salvatore, M., & Brandimonte (2025). Mechanical and semantic knowledge mediate the implicit understanding of the physical world. Brain and Cognition, 183, 106253.

• Federico, G., Lesourd, M., Fournel, A., Bluet, A., Bryche, C., Metaireau, M., Baldi, D., Brandimonte, M. A., Soricelli, A., Rosetti, Y., & Osiurak, F. (2025). Two distinct neural pathways for mechanical versus digital technology. NeuroImage, 305, 120971.

• Osiurak, F. & Claidière, N. (2025). Language is a unique form of communication that transformed human evolution but how unique is linguistic evolution? Commentary on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Bickel, Giraud, Zuberbühler, and van Schaik. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 63-64.

2024

• Bryche, C., Lesourd, M., & Osiurak, F. (in press). From stone tools to fMRI, studying human cognitive evolution when the mind doesn't fossilize. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 8, 199-221.

• Metaireau, M. Osiurak, F., Seye, A., & Lesourd, M. (2024). The neural correlates of limb apraxia: An anatomical likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain-damaged patients. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 162, 105720.

• Curzel, F., Osiurak, F., Tran, E., Tillman, B., Ripollés, P., & Ferreri, L. (2024). Enhancing musical pleasure through shared musical experience. iScience, 27, 109964.

• Bluet, A., Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2024). Innovation rate and population structure moderate the effect of population size on cumulative technological culture. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 649.

• François, M., Fort, A., Osiurak, F., Crave, P., & Navarro, J. (2024). Does participatory design lead to safer human-machine interaction? Efficiency and distraction with truck dashboards designed by drivers.  Safety Science, 174, 106482.

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Jarry, C., Merck, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Belliard, S., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2024). Knowing “What for”, but not “Where”: Dissociation between functional and contextual tool knowledge in healthy individuals and patients with dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 30, 97-106. 

2023

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Remigereau, C., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2023). Sensory integration deficits in neurodegenerative diseases: Implications for apraxia. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 38, 1557-1563.

• Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Ciccarelli, G., Ilardi, C. R., Cavaliere, C., Tramontano, L., Alfano, V., Migliaccio, M., Di Cecca, A., Salvatore, M., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2023). On the functional brain networks involved in tool-related action understanding. Communications Biology, 6, 1163.

• Baumard, J., De Sousa, E., Roy, V., Deschamps, L., Iodice, P., Osiurak, F., & Brisson, J. (2023). Grip selection without tool knowledge: End-state comfort effect in familiar and novel tool use. Experimental Brain Research, 241, 1989-2000.

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Remigereau, C., Laurent, L., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2023). Meaningless imitation in neurodegenerative diseases: Effects of body part, bimanual imitation, asymmetry, and body midline crossing. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 39, 227-248.

• Virgo, J., Tarpin-Bernard, F., De Chalvron, S., Reynaud, E., Fruitet, J., Palluel-Germain, R., Vallet, G. T., & Osiurak, F. (2023). Échelle de cognition numérique (NUMERICOG). Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée, 73, 100873.

• Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Brandimonte, M. A., & Cavaliere, C. (2023). The visual encoding of graspable unfamiliar objects. Psychological Research, 87, 452-461.

• Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2023). What semantic dementia tells us about the ability to infer others’ communicative intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e12.

• Lesourd, M., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Gaujoux, V., Faye-Védrines, A., Alexandre, B., De Oliveira, E., Baumard, J., Federico, G., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., & Osiurak, F. (2023). Involvement of the posterior tool processing network during explicit retrieval of action and semantic tool knowledge: An fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 11, 6525-6542.

• Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., & Federico, G. (2023). Cultural cognition and technology: Mechanical actions speak louder than motor actions. Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten. Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 141-144.

• Osiurak, F., Federico, G., & Claidière, N. (2023). Technical reasoning: Neither cognitive instinct nor cognitive gadget? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 339-340.

• Osiurak, F., Delporte, L., Revol, P., Quesque, F., Melgar, L., Robert de Beauchamp, A., & Rossetti, Y. (2023). The social cognitive dimension of pantomime. Brain and Cognition, 166, 105942.

• Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., & Federico, G. (2023). Bringing cumulative technological culture beyond copying versus reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 30-42.

• Gaujoux, V., Reynaud, E., Palluel-Germain, R., Vallet, G., Navarro, J., & Osiurak, F. (2023). Multitasking numérique et cognition : Effets de la consommation des médias sur l’organisation et la performance à des tâches non-numériques. L’Année Psychologique, 123, 63-89.

2022

• Federico, G., Cavaliere, C., Reynaud, E., Salvatore, M. Brandimonte, M. A., & Osiurak, F. (2022). The Area Prostriata plays a role in technical reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 18, 12.

• Navarro, J., Osiurak, F., Ha, S., Communay, G., Ferrier-Barbut, E., Coatrine, A., Gaujoux, V., Hernout, E., Cegarra, J., Volante, W., & Hancock, P. A. (2022). Development of the Smart Tools Proneness Questionnaire (STP-Q): An instrument to assess the individual smart propensity of use smart tools. Ergonomics, 65, 1639-1658.

• Faye, A., Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M. Hannoun, S., Cotton, F., Besnard, J., & Jacquin-Courtois, S., (2022). Numerical, spatial, and material magnitude estimation in left and right brain-damaged patients. Neuropsychological Trends, 32, 7-27.

• Gaujoux, V., Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2022). Spontaneous organization in task switching reflects self-reported polychronicity and media multitasking tendency. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 100085.

• Danel, S., von Bayern, A., & Osiurak, F. (2022). Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fail to use tools flexibly problem-solving tasks. Ethology, 128, 99-110.

• Bartolo, A., & Osiurak, F. (2022) One century after Liepmann’s work: Where do we go now? Cortex, 154, 333-339.

• Federico, G., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Gaujoux, V., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Cavaliere, C., Alfano, V., Aiello, M., Seguin, P., Schnebelen, Brandimonte, M. A., Rossetti, Y., & Osiurak, F. (2022). The cortical thickness of the area PF of the left inferior parietal cortex mediates technical-reasoning skills. Scientific Reports, 12, 11840.

• Bluet, A., Osiurak., F., Claidière, N., & Reynaud, E. (2022). Impact of technical reasoning and theory of mind on cumulative technological culture: Insights from a model of micro-societies. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, 231.

• Danel, S., Rebout, N., Osiurak, F., & Biro, D. (2022). Exclusion by donkey’s ears: Donkeys (Equus asinus) use acoustic information to find hidden food in a two-way object-choice task. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 136, 68-78.

• Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., Bluet, A., Brogniart, J., Lasserre, S., Bonhoure, T., Di Rollo, L., Gorry, N., Polette, Y., Saude, A., Federico, G., Uomini, N., & Reynaud, E. (2022). Technical reasoning bolsters cumulative technological culture through convergent transformations. Science Advances, 8, eabl7446.

• Mangalam, M., Fragaszy, D. M., Wagman, J., B., Day, B. M., Kelty-Stephen, D. G., Bongers, R., Stout, D. W., & Osiurak, F. (2022). On the psychological origins of tool use. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 134, 104521.

• Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E., & Navarro, J. (2022). Impact of intrinsic cognitive and metacognitive beliefs on tool-use performance. American Journal of Psychology, 135, 59-68.

2021

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Guezouli, L., & Osiurak, F. (2021). Physical understanding in neurodegenerative diseases. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 38, 490-514.

• Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2021). Four ways of (mis-)conceiving embodiment in tool use. Synthese, 199, 3853-3879.

• Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E., Baumard, J., Rossetti, Y., Bartolo, A., & Lesourd, M. (2021). Pantomime of tool use: Looking beyond apraxia. Brain Communications, 3, facb263.

• Gray, W. D., Osiurak, F., & Heersmink, R. (2021). Editors’ introduction to Tasks, Tools, & Techniques. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13, 540-547. 

• Osiurak, F., Cretel, C., Uomini, N., Bryche, C., Lesourd, M., & Reynaud, E. (2021). On the neurocognitive co-evolution of tool behavior and language: Insights from the massive redeployment framework. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13, 684-707.

• Federico, G., Osiurak, F., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2021). Hazardous tools: The emergence of technical reasoning in human tool use. Psychological Research, 85, 3108-3118. 

• Alexandre, B., Osiurak, F., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2021). Tool acceptance and acceptability: Insights from a real tool use activity. Cognitive Processing, 22, 627-639.

• Danel, S., Rebout, N., von Bayern, A., & Osiurak, F. (2021). Complex nests but no use of tools: An investigation of problem solving in weaverbirds (Ploceidae). Behavioural Process, 192, 104493.

• Decombe, A., Brunel, L., Murday, V., Osiurak, F., Capdevielle, D., & Raffard, S. (2021). Getting a tool gives wings even in schizophrenia: Underestimation of tool-related effort in a motor imagery task. Npj Schizophrenia, 7, 45.

• Osiurak, F., Griffon, P., Gaujoux, V., Reynaud, E., & Navarro, J. (2021). The Toolman effect: Preexisting non-tool-use experience improves subsequent tool-use performance. Acta Psychologica, 220, 103389.

• Fournier, I., Beck, S. R., Droit-Volet, S., Brogniart, J., & Osiurak, F. (2021). Learning versus reasoning to use tools in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 211, 105232.

• Lesourd, M., Servant, M. Baumard, J., Reynaud, E., Ecochard, C., Trari-Medjaoui, F., Bartolo, A., & Osiurak, F. (2021). Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks. Neuropsychologia, 159, 107918.

• Osiurak, F., Lasserre, S., Arbanti, J., Brogniart, J., Bluet, A., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2021). Technical reasoning is important for cumulative technological culture. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1643-1651.

• Murday, V., Campos-Moinier, K., Osiurak, F., & Brunel, L. (2021). Extraversion level predicts perceived benefits from social resources and tool use. Scientific Reports, 11, 12260.

• Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2021). Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration. Brain and Cognition, 152, 105758.

• Navarro, J., Lappi, O., Osiurak, F., Hernout, E., Gabaude, C., & Reynaud, E. (2021). Dynamic scan paths investigations under manual and highly automated driving. Scientific Reports, 11, 3776.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Merck, C., Etxcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré V., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Croisile, B., & Le Gall, D. (2021). Daily life activities in patients with Alzheimer’s disease or semantic dementia: Multitasking assessment. Neuropsychologia, 150, 107714.

• François, M., Osiurak, F., Fort, A., Crave, P., & Navarro, J. (2021). Usability and acceptance of truck dashboards designed by drivers: Two participatory design approaches compared to use-centred design. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 81, 103073.

2020

• Osiurak, F., Cretel, C., Duhau-Marmon, N., Fournier, I., Marignier, L., De Oliveira, E., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2020). The pedagogue, the engineer, and the friend: From whom do we learn? Human Nature, 31, 462-482.

• Navarro, J., Hernout, E., Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2020). On the nature of eye-hand coordination in natural steering behavior. PLoS One, 15, e0242818.

• Badets, A., Duville, M. & Osiurak, F. (2020). Tool-number interaction during a prospective memory task. Cognitive Processing, 21, 501-508.

• Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Brandimonte, M. A., Reynaud, E., & Lesourd, M. (2020). On the temporal dynamics of tool use. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 579378.

• Osiurak, F. & Bartolo, A. (2020). One century after Liepmann’s work on apraxia: Where are we now? Cortex, 129, 526-528.

• Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2020). The elephant in the China shop: When technical reasoning meets cumulative technological culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Response), 43, e156.

• Baumard, J., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Boussard, D., Lesourd, M., Remigereau, C., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2020). Effect of object substitution, spontaneous compensation and repetitive training on reaching movements in a patient with optic ataxia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 30, 1786-1813.

• Danel, S., Troina, G., Dufour, V., Bailly-Bechet, M., von Bayern, A., & Osiurak, F. (2020). Social learning in great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus): A preliminary study. Learning & Behavior, 48, 344-350.

• Baumard, J., Remigereau, C., Lesourd, M., Lucas, C., Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2020). Imitation of meaningless gestures in normal aging. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 27, 729-747.

• Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2020). The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Target Article), 43, e156.

• Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2020). Technition: When tools come out of the closet. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 880-897.

• Lesourd, M., Naëgelé, B., Jaillard, A., Detante, O., & Osiurak, F. (2020). Using tools efficiently despite defective hand posture: A single-case study. Cortex, 129, 406-422.

• Osiurak, F., Badets, A., Rossetti, Y., Lesourd, M., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2020). Disembodying (tool use) action understanding. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 114, 229-231.

• Osiurak, F., & Rossetti, Y. (2020). Astereognosia. Cortex, 127, 399.

• Osiurak, F., De Oliveira, E., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2020). The castaway island: Distinct roles of theory of mind and technical reasoning in cumulative technological culture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 58-66.

2019

• Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., & Osiurak, F. (2019). To watch is to work: A critical review of neuroimaging data on tool-use observation network. Neuropsychology Review, 29, 484-497.

• Faye, A., Jacquin-Courtois, S., Reynaud, E., Lesourd, M., Besnard, J., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Numerical cognition: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic simulation, and brain-damaged patients studies. NeuroImage: Clinical, 24, 102053.

• De Oliveira, E., Reynaud, E., & Osiurak, F., (2019). Roles of technical reasoning, theory of mind, creativity, and fluid cognition in cumulative technological culture. Human Nature, 30, 326-340.

• Baumard, J., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Is bodily experience an epiphenomenon of multisensory integration and cognition? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 316.

• François, M., Fort, A., Crave, P., Osiurak, F., & Navarro, J. (2019). Gauges design on digital instrument cluster: Efficiency, visual capture, and satisfaction assessment for truck driving. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 72, 290-297.

• Navarro, J., Osiurak, F., Ovigue, M., Charrier, L., & Reynaud, E. (2019). Highly automated driving impact on drivers’ gaze behaviors during a car-following task. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35, 1008-1017.

• Lesourd, M., Budriesi, C., Osiurak, F., Nichelli, P., & Bartolo, A. (2019). Mechanical knowledge does matter to tool use even when assessed with a non-production task: Evidence from left brain-damaged patients. Journal of Neuropsychology, 13, 198-213.

• Revol, P., Collette-Robert, S., Boulon, Z., Imai, A., Jacquin-Courtois, S., Osiurak, F., & Rossetti, Y. (2019). Thirst for intention? Grasping a glass is a thirst-controlled action. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1248.

• Danel, S., van Buuren, M., von Bayern, A., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Male yellow-crowned bishops (Euplectes afer afer) acquire a novel foraging behaviour by social learning. Journal of Ethology, 37, 235-239.

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Remigereau, C., Merck, C., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2019). The – weak – role of memory in tool use: Evidence from neurodegenerative diseases. Neuropsychologia, 129, 117-132.

• Navarro, J., Osiurak, F., Gaujoux, V., Ouimet, M. C. & Reynaud, E.  (2019). Driving under influence: How music listening affects driving behaviors. Journal of Visualized Experiments, e58342.

• Faure, J., Joulain, M., Lesourd, M., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Age differences in maximization. Psychologie Française, 64, 47-54.

• Danel, S., von Bayern, A., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Ground-hornbills (Bucorvus) show means-end understanding in a horizontal strings two-string discrimination task. Journal of Ethology, 37, 117-122.

• Alexandre, B., Navarro, J., Reynaud, E., & Osiurak, F. (2019). Which cognitive tools do we prefer to use, and is this preference rational? Cognition, 186, 108-114.

• Osiurak, F., Baumard, J., Rossetti, Y., & Lesourd, M. (2019). Is there really a loss of agency in apraxia of tool use? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 87.

2018

• Navarro, J., Reynaud, E., & Osiurak, F. (2018). Neuroergonomics of car driving. A critical meta-analysis of neuroimaging data of the human brain behind the wheel. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 95, 464-479.

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Jarry, C., Merck, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Croisile, B., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2018). Tool use in neurodegenerative diseases: Planning or technical reasoning? Journal of Neuropsychology, 12, 409-426.

• Lesourd, M. Osiurak, F, Baumard, J., Bartolo, A., Vanbelligen, T., & Reynaud, E. (2018). Cerebral correlates of imitation of intransitive gestures: An integrative review of neuroimaging data and brain lesion studies. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 95, 44-60.

• Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M., Delporte, L., & Rossetti, Y. (2018). Tool use and generalized motor programs. We all are natural born poly-dexters. Scientific Reports, 8, 10429.

• Alexandre, B., Reynaud, E., Osiurak, F., & Navarro, J. (2018). Acceptance and acceptability criteria: A literature review. Cognition, Technology, & Work, 20, 165-177.

• Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., & Thomas, G. (2018). Tools don’t – and won’t make the Man. A cognitive look at the technology of the future. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 782-788.

• Osiurak, F., & Danel, S. (2018). Tool use and dexterity: Beyond the embodied theory. Animal Behaviour, 139, e1-e4.

• Osiurak, F., & Heinke, D. (2018). Looking for Intoolligence: A unified framework for the cognitive study of human tool use and technology. American Psychologist, 73, 169-185.

• Faye, A., Jacquin-Courtois, S., & Osiurak, F. (2018). Tool use in left brain-damaged patients: Difficulties to reason, but not to estimate physical object properties. Neuropsychology, 32, 249-258.

• Navarro, J., Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2018). Does the tempo of the music listened while driving impact performance? Human Factors, 60, 556-574.

• Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., Remigereau, C., Costini, O., Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2018). Un demi-siècle d’apraxie : Histoire récente et perspectives futures. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 10, 82-90. 

• Osiurak, F, Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2018). How cognition shapes and is shaped by technology: A common framework for understanding human tool-use interactions in the past, present, and future. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 9, 293.

2017

• De Oliveira, E., Osiurak, F., & Reynaud, E. (2017). Les fondements cognitifs de la culture et de l’évolution culturelle cumulative : Une revue de la littérature. L’Année Psychologique, 134, 351-378.

• Osiurak, F. (2017). Cognitive paleoanthropology and technology: Toward a parsimonious theory (PATH). Review of General Psychology, 21, 292-307.

• Osiurak, F., Granjon, M., Bonnevie, I., Brogniart, J., Mechtouff, L., Benoit, A., Nighoghossian, N., & Lesourd, M. (2017). Novel tool selection in left brain-damaged patients with apraxia of tool use: A study of three cases. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23, 1-6.

• Danel, S., Osiurak, F., & von Bayern, A. (2017). From the age of 5 humans decide economically, whereas crows exhibit individual preferences. Scientific Reports, 7, 17043.

• Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Le Gall, D., Jarry, C., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Gestural apraxia. Revue Neurologique, 173, 430-439.

• Osiurak, F. (2017). What is the future for tool-specific generalized motor programs? Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16, 701-708.

• Osiurak, F. (2017). Human tool use and the left inferior parietal cortex. eLS. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester.

• François, M., Crave, P., Osiurak, F., Fort, A., & Navarro, J. (2017). Digital, analogue, or redundant speedometer for truck driving: impact on visual distraction and usability. Applied Ergonomics, 65, 12-22.

• Osiurak, F., & Rossetti, Y. (2017). Limb apraxia. Cortex, 93, 228.

• Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Le Gall, D., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Les multiples facettes des pantomimes d’utilisation d’outils. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 9, 118-123.

• Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., Jarry, C., Le Gall, D., & Osiurak, F. (2017). A cognitive-based model of tool use in normal aging. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 24, 363-386. 

• Lesourd, M., Osiurak, F., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2017). Involvement of the left supramarginal gyrus in manipulation judgment tasks : Contributions to theories of tool use. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23, 1-7.

• Lesourd, M., Navarro, J., Baumard, J., Jarry, C., Le Gall, D., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Imitation and matching of meaningless gestures: Distinct involvement from motor and visual imagery. Psychological Research, 81, 525-537.

• Osiurak, F., Rossetti, Y., & Badets, A. (2017). What is an affordance? 40 years later. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 77, 403-417.

• Virgo, J., Pillon, J., Navarro, J., Reynaud, E., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Are you sure you’re faster when using a cognitive tool? American Journal of Psychology, 130, 493-503.

• Badets, A., Michelet, T., de Rugy, A., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Creating semantics in tool use. Cognitive Processing, 18, 129-134.

• François, M., Osiurak, F., Fort, A., Crave, P., & Navarro, J. (2017). Automative HMI and user involvement: Review and perspectives. Ergonomics, 60, 541-552.

• Navarro, J., & Osiurak, F. (2017). The more intelligent people are, the more they use tools. Psychologie Française, 62, 85-91.

• Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Croisile, B., Chauviré, V., Granjon, M., Le Gall, D., & Osiurak, F. (2017). Rethinking the cognitive mechanisms underlying pantomime of tool use: Evidence from Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23, 128-138.

• Badets, A., & Osiurak, F. (2017). The ideomotor recycling theory for tool use, language, and foresight. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 365-377.

• Osiurak, F., & Badets, A. (2017). Use of tools and misuse of embodied cognition. Reply to Buxbaum (2017). Psychological Review, 124, 361-368.

2016

• Remigereau, C., Roy, A., Costini, O., Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Involvement of Technical Reasoning more than Functional Knowledge in development of tool use in childhood. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1625..

• Osiurak, F., & Badets, A. (2016). Affordance and tool use. Manipulation-based versus reasoning-based approaches. Psychological Review, 123, 534-568.

• Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M., Navarro, J., & Reynaud, E. (2016). Commentary: Effects of dividing attention on memory for declarative and procedural aspects of tool use. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1488.

• Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Jarry, C., Merck, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Croisile, B., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Tool use disorders in neurodegenerative diseases. Roles of semantic memory and technical reasoning. Cortex, 82, 119-132.

• Osiurak, F., De Oliveira, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Claidière, N., & Reynaud, E. (2016). Physical intelligence does matter to cumulative technological culture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 941-948.

• Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Belliard, S., Moreaud, O., Croisile, B., Chauviré, V., Granjon, M., Le Gall, D., & Osiurak, F. (2016). Mechanical problem-solving in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia. Neuropsychology, 30, 612-623.

• Le Gall, D., Jarry, C., Besnard, J., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., & Osiurak, F. (2016). L’apraxie dans les pathologies neurodégénératives. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 8, 77-85.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Stratégies d’évaluation des troubles d’utilisation d’outils. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 8, 108-117.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Bases neurocognitives de l’utilisation d’outils. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 8, 99-103.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Vous avez dit Homo Faber ? Tétralogiques, 21, 59-86.

• Reynaud, E., Lesourd, M., Navarro, J., & Osiurak, F. (2016). On the neurocognitive origins of human tool use: A critical review of neuroimaging data. Neuroscience & BioBehavioral Reviews, 64, 421-437.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Croisile, B., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., & Le Gall, D. (2016). Tool use in left brain damage and Alzheimer’s disease. What about function and manipulation knowledge? Journal of Neuropsychology, 10, 154-159.

2015

• Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E. (2015). Nos performances de conduite sont-elles sous l’influence du tempo de la musique que nous écoutons ? Une étude sur simulateur. Recherche, Transports, Sécurité, 31, 211-221.

• Osiurak, F., Bergot, M., & Chainay, H. (2015). Visual objects speak louder than words: Motor planning and weight in tool use and object transport. Acta Psychologica, 162, 76-80.

• Faure, J., Joulain, M., & Osiurak, F. (2015). Validation en langue française des échelles de maximation et de regret de Schwartz et collaborateurs. Psychologie Française, 60, 301-316.

• Badets, A., & Osiurak, F. (2015). The lowest common denominator between species for teaching behaviors. Commentary on "How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals" by Kline. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e33.

• Osiurak, F., Faure, J., Rabeyron, T., Morange, D., Dumet, N., Tapiero, I., Poussin, M., Navarro, J., Reynaud, E., & Finkel, A. (2015). Déterminants de la procrastination académique: Motivation autodéterminée, estime de soi et degré de maximation. Pratiques Psychologiques, 21, 19-33.

• Badets, A., & Osiurak, F. (2015). A goal-based mechanism for delayed motor intention: Considerations from motor skills, tool use and action memory. Psychological Research, 79, 345-360.

• Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2015). Apraxia: A gestural or a cognitive disorder? Brain, 138, e333.

• Navarro, J., & Osiurak, F. (2015). When do use automatic tools rather than doing a task manually? Influence of automatic tool speed. American Journal of Psychology, 128, 77-88.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., Baumard, J., Lesourd, M., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Chauviré, V., & Le Gall, D. (2015). Mechanical problem solving and imitation of meaningless postures in left brain damaged patients. Two sides of the same coin? Cortex, 63, 214-216.

2014

• Chainay, H., Brüers, S., Martin, H., & Osiurak, F. (2014). Transport and use of common objects: Influence of weight on action planning. Visual Cognition, 22, 1154-1172.

• Osiurak, F., & Lesourd, M. (2014). What about mechanical knowledge? Comment on "Action semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge" by van Elk, van Schie, and Bekkering. Physics of Life reviews, 11, 269-270.

• Osiurak, F. (2014). Tool use and manual actions: The human body as a means versus an end. Cortex, 57, 281-282.

• Osiurak, F. (2014). Mechanical knowledge, but not manipulation knowledge, might support action prediction. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 737.

• Osiurak, F. & Massen, C. (2014). The cognitive and neural bases of human tool use. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1107.

• Baumard, J., Osiurak, F., Lesourd, M., & Le Gall, D. (2014). Tool use disorders after left brain damage. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 473.

• Osiurak, F. (2014). What neuropsychology tells us about human tool use? The four constraints theory (4CT): Mechanics, space, time, and effort. Neuropsychology Review, 24, 88-115.

• Osiurak, F., Morgado, N., Vallet, G., Drot, M., & Palluel-Germain, R. (2014). Getting a tool gives wings: Overestimation of tool-related benefits in a motor imagery task and a decision task. Psychological Research, 78, 1-9.

• Osiurak, F., & Badets, A. (2014). Pliers, not fingers: Tool-action effect in a motor intention paradigm. Cognition, 130, 66-73.

2013

• Griot, M., Poussin, M., & Osiurak, F. (2013). L’expérience fraternelle confrontée à la déficience intellectuelle. Pratiques Psychologiques, 19, 245-263.

• Osiurak, F. (2013). Apraxia of tool use is not a matter of affordances. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 890.

• Lesourd, M., Le Gall, D., Baumard, J., Croisile, B., Jarry, C., & Osiurak, F. (2013). Apraxie et maladie d’Alzheimer. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 5, 213-222.

• Osiurak, F., Wagner, C., Djerbi, S., & Navarro, J. (2013). To do it or to let an automatic tool do it? The priority of control over effort. Experimental Psychology, 60, 453-468.

• Jarry, C., Osiurak, F., Delafuys, D., Chauviré, V., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., & Le Gall, D. (2013). Apraxia of tool use: More evidence for the technical reasoning hypothesis. Cortex, 49, 2322-2333.

• Morgado, N., Gentaz, E., Guinet, E., Osiurak, F., & Palluel-Germain, R. (2013). Within reach but no so reachable: Obstacles matter in visual perception of reaching distances. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 462-467.

• Lesourd, M., Le Gall, D., Baumard, J., Croisile, B., Jarry, C., & Osiurak, F. (2013). Apraxia and Alzheimer’s disease: Review and perspectives. Neuropsychology Review, 23, 234-256.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., Lesourd, M., Baumard, J., & Le Gall, D. (2013). Mechanical problem-solving strategies in left brain-damaged patients and apraxia of tool use. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1964-1972.

• Osiurak, F., Roche, K., Ramone, J., & Chainay, H. (2013). Handing a tool to someone can take more time than using it. Cognition, 128, 76-81.

• Bohlhalter, S., & Osiurak, F. (2013). Limb apraxia in neurodegenerative diseases. Neurodegenerative Disease Management, 3, 353-361.

• Faure, J., & Osiurak, F. (2013). L’appropriation de l’espace chez des personnes âgées dépendantes résidants en EHPAD. Pratiques Psychologiques, 19, 135-146.

2010-2012

• Palluel-Germain, R., Morgado, N., Osiurak, F., & Gentaz, E. (2012). Physical constraints of action matter: Their effect on perceived distance. Cognitive Processing, 13, S66.

• Le Gall, D., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., & Osiurak, F. (2012). Les apraxies: Synthèse et nouvelles perspectives. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 4, 174-185.

• Osiurak, F., Morgado, N., & Palluel-Germain, R. (2012). Tool use and perceived distance: When unreachable becomes spontaneously reachable. Experimental Brain Research, 218, 331-339.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., Baltenneck, N., Boudin, B., & Le Gall, D. (2012). Make a gesture and I will tell you what you are miming: Pantomime recognition in healthy subjects. Cortex, 48, 584-592.

• Baltenneck, N., Portalier, S., Chapon, P. -M., & Osiurak, F. (2012). 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. Année Psychologique, 112, 403-433.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., & Le Gall, D. (2011). Re-examining the gesture engram hypothesis: New perspectives on apraxia of tool use. Neuropsychologia, 49, 299-312.

• Gaymard, S., Allain, P., Osiurak, F., & Le Gall, D. (2011). The conditions of respect of rules in young and elderly drivers: An exploratory study. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 3, 11-28.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., & Le Gall, D. (2010). De l’ouvrage à l’usage: Réflexions sur les concepts d’improvisation et de pérennité. Tétralogiques, 18, 15-27.

• Besnard, J., Allain, P., Aubin, G., Osiurak, F., V., Chauviré, Etcharry-Bouyx, F., & Le Gall, D. (2010). Utilization behaviour: Clinical and theoretical approach. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 1-10.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., & Le Gall, D. (2010). Grasping the affordances, understanding the reasoning: Toward a dialectical theory of human tool use. Psychological Review, 117, 517-540.

2004-2009

• Besnard, J., Allain, P., Osiurak, F., Aubin, G., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., & Le Gall, D. (2009). Contrôle exécutif et comportement d’utilisation d’objets: Vers une dissociation. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 1, 120-132.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., Allain, P., Aubin, G., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Richard, I., Bernard, I., & Le Gall, D. (2009). Unusual use of objects after unilateral brain damage: The technical reasoning model. Cortex, 45, 769-783.

• Osiurak, F., Aubin, G., Allain, P., Jarry, C., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Richard, I., & Le Gall, D. (2008). Different constraints on grip selection in brain-damaged patients: Object use versus object transport. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2431-2434.

• Osiurak, F., Aubin, G., Allain, P., Jarry, C., Richard, I., & Le Gall, D. (2008). Object utilization and object usage: A single-case study. Neurocase, 14, 169-183.

• Osiurak, F., Jarry, C., Allain, P., Aubin, G., Etcharry-Bouyx, F., Richard, I., & Le Gall, D. (2007). Des troubles praxiques aux troubles techniques: Une étude de deux cas. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 17, 231-259.

• Bonnaud, V., Bouston, A., Osiurak, F., & Gil, R. (2004). Le syndrome dysexécutif chez la personne âgée: De la théorie à la pratique. La Revue Francophone de Gériatrie et de Gérontologie, 103, 147-149.