“…Therefore, the ability to use tools may be sustained by another form of knowledge. The concept of mechanical knowledge refers to the capacity to infer possible uses of both familiar and novel tools from analysis of their structural properties (Buxbaum, ; Daprati & Sirigu, ; Goldenberg & Hagmann, ; Hartmann, Goldenberg, Daumüller, & Hermsdörfer, ; Heilman, Maher, Greenwald, & Rothi, ; Hodges, Bozeat, Lambon Ralph, Patterson, & Spatt, ; Osiurak, ; Osiurak & Badets, ; Osiurak, Jarry, & Le Gall, , ; Osiurak & Lesourd, ; Osiurak et al ., ). An association between impaired tool use and decreased mechanical knowledge has been observed in left brain‐damaged (LBD) patients and in patients with neurodegenerative disorders (Baumard et al ., ; Goldenberg & Hagmann, ; Jarry et al ., ; Lesourd et al ., ).…”