Two distinct neural pathways for mechanical versus digital technology.

IF 4.7 2区医学 Q1 NEUROIMAGING

NeuroImage Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-10 DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120971

Giovanni Federico, Mathieu Lesourd, Arnaud Fournel, Alexandre Bluet, Chloé Bryche, Maximilien Metaireau, Dario Baldi, Maria Antonella Brandimonte, Andrea Soricelli, Yves Rossetti, François Osiurak

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Abstract

Technology pervades every aspect of our lives, making it crucial to investigate how the human mind deals with it. Here we examine the cognitive and neural foundations of technological cognition. In the first fMRI experiment, participants viewed videos depicting the use of mechanical tools (e.g., a screwdriver) and digital tools (e.g., a smartphone) compared to simple object movements. Results revealed a key dissociation: mechanical tools extensively activated the dorsal and ventro-dorsal visual streams, which are motor- and action-oriented brain systems. Conversely, digital tools largely engaged the ventral visual stream, associated with conceptual and social cognition. A second behavioral experiment showed a pronounced tendency to anthropomorphize digital tools. A third experiment involving a priming task confirmed that digital tools activate the social brain. The discovery of two different neurocognitive systems for mechanical versus digital technology offers new insights into human-technology interaction and its implications for the evolution of the human mind.

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技术渗透到我们生活的方方面面，因此研究人类大脑如何应对技术至关重要。在这里，我们将研究技术认知的认知和神经基础。在第一个 fMRI 实验中，参与者观看了描述使用机械工具（如螺丝刀）和数字工具（如智能手机）的视频，并将其与简单的物体运动进行了比较。结果发现了一个关键的差异：机械工具广泛激活了背侧和腹背侧视觉流，这是运动和行动导向的大脑系统。相反，数字工具则在很大程度上激活了与概念和社会认知相关的腹侧视觉流。第二个行为实验表明，人们明显倾向于将数字工具拟人化。第三个实验涉及引物任务，证实了数字工具激活了社会大脑。机械技术与数字技术两种不同神经认知系统的发现，为人类与技术的互动及其对人类心智进化的影响提供了新的视角。

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NeuroImage 医学-核医学

CiteScore

11.30

自引率

10.50%

发文量

809

审稿时长

63 days

期刊介绍： NeuroImage, a Journal of Brain Function provides a vehicle for communicating important advances in acquiring, analyzing, and modelling neuroimaging data and in applying these techniques to the study of structure-function and brain-behavior relationships. Though the emphasis is on the macroscopic level of human brain organization, meso-and microscopic neuroimaging across all species will be considered if informative for understanding the aforementioned relationships.