François Osiurak

François Osiurak publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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François Osiurak D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where François Osiurak sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Grasping the affordances, understanding the reasoning: toward a dialectical theory of human tool use.

  François Osiurak;Christophe Jarry;Didier Le Gall

  277
  Citations

• Tool use and affordance: Manipulation-based versus reasoning-based approaches.

  François Osiurak;Arnaud Badets

  223
  Citations

• What is an affordance? 40 years later.

  François Osiurak;François Osiurak;Yves Rossetti;Arnaud Badets

  211
  Citations

• On the neurocognitive origins of human tool use : A critical review of neuroimaging data.

  Emanuelle Reynaud;Mathieu Lesourd;Jordan Navarro;François Osiurak;François Osiurak

  208
  Citations

• The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture.

  François Osiurak;Emanuelle Reynaud

  195
  Citations

• Unusual use of objects after unilateral brain damage: the technical reasoning model.

  François Osiurak;Christophe Jarry;Philippe Allain;Ghislaine Aubin

  173
  Citations

• What Neuropsychology Tells us About Human Tool Use? The Four Constraints Theory (4CT): Mechanics, Space, Time, and Effort

  François Osiurak

  149
  Citations

• Apraxia of tool use: More evidence for the technical reasoning hypothesis

  Christophe Jarry;François Osiurak;David Delafuys;Valérie Chauviré

  132
  Citations

• Acceptance and acceptability criteria: a literature review

  Boris Alexandre;Emanuelle Reynaud;François Osiurak;François Osiurak;Jordan Navarro;Jordan Navarro

  116
  Citations

• Re-examining the gesture engram hypothesis. New perspectives on apraxia of tool use

  François Osiurak;Christophe Jarry;Didier Le Gall

  104
  Citations

• Mechanical problem-solving strategies in left-brain damaged patients and apraxia of tool use

  François Osiurak;Christophe Jarry;Mathieu Lesourd;Josselin Baumard

  99
  Citations

• Apraxia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Review and Perspectives

  Mathieu Lesourd;Didier Le Gall;Josselin Baumard;Bernard Croisile

  98
  Citations

• Physical intelligence does matter to cumulative technological culture.

  François Osiurak;Emmanuel De Oliveira;Jordan Navarro;Mathieu Lesourd

  86
  Citations

• Tool use disorders in neurodegenerative diseases: Roles of semantic memory and technical reasoning

  Josselin Baumard;Mathieu Lesourd;Christophe Jarry;Catherine Merck

  82
  Citations

• Tool use and perceived distance: when unreachable becomes spontaneously reachable.

  François Osiurak;Nicolas Morgado;Richard Palluel-Germain;Richard Palluel-Germain

  76
  Citations

• Object utilization and object usage: a single-case study.

  François Osiurak;Ghislaine Aubin;Philippe Allain;Christophe Jarry

  73
  Citations

• Looking for intoolligence: A unified framework for the cognitive study of human tool use and technology.

  François Osiurak;Dietmar Heinke

  69
  Citations

• Pliers, not fingers: Tool-action effect in a motor intention paradigm

  François Osiurak;Arnaud Badets

  67
  Citations

• A goal-based mechanism for delayed motor intention: considerations from motor skills, tool use and action memory

  Arnaud Badets;François Osiurak

  59
  Citations

• To Watch is to Work: a Review of NeuroImaging Data on Tool Use Observation Network.

  Emanuelle Reynaud;Jordan Navarro;Jordan Navarro;Mathieu Lesourd;François Osiurak;François Osiurak

  56
  Citations