The cognitive properties of the motor system and mirror neurons

Leonardo Fogassi

3-17

Children's object manipulation

a tool for knowing the external world and for communicative development

Valentina Focaroli, Jana M. Iverson

19-27

Hands shaping communication

from gestures to signs

Laura Sparaci, Virginia Volterra

29-54

Primates' propensity to explore objects

how manual actions affect learning in children and capuchin monkeys

Fabrizio Taffoni, Gloria Sabbatini, Domenico Formica, Valentina Truppa

55-73

Current achievements and future directions of hand prostheses controlled via peripheral nervous system

Andreas Schneider, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Loredana Zollo, Anna L. Ciancio, Francesca Cordella, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann

75-95

The human hand as a microcosm. a philosophical overview on the hand and its role in the processes of perception, action, and cognition

99-113

Ready-to-hand in Heidegger

philosophy as an everyday understanding of the world and the question concerning technology

José Manuel Chillón

115-126

The therapeutic hand

Xavier Escribano, Albert Pérez-Bellmunt

127-145

Cooking and human evolution

Maria P. Chirinos

147-161

Essential to art

Sixto Castro

163-173

On the role of the hand in the expression of music

Marc Leman, Luc Nijs, Nicola Di Stefano

175-192