Don't know if this answers your question, but I found it interesting and on point to the general discussion:
"Our ways of thinking, perceiving, and acting, we now know, are not entirely determined by our genes. Nor are they entirely determined by our childhood experiences. We change them through the way we live--and, as Nietzsche sensed, through the tools we use. Years before Edward Taub opened his rehabilitation clinic in Alabama, he conducted a famous experiment on a group of right handed violinists.... Playing a violin, a musical tool, had resulted in substantial physical changes in the brain. That was true even for the musicians who had first taken up their instruments as adults.
"When scientists have trained primates and other animals to use simple tools, they've discovered just how profoundly the brain can be influenced by technology.... The tools, so far as the animal's brains were concerned, had become part of their bodies. As the researchers who conducted the experiment with the pliers reported, the monkey's brains began to act 'as if the pliers were now the hand fingers.'"
pp. 31-2.
When Nietzsche changed from writing long hand and started using a typewriter, his writing style changed.
"When a carpenter picks up a hammer, the hammer becomes, so far as the brain is concerned, part of his hand.... The experiments on pliers-wielding monkeys revealed how readily the plastic primate brain can incorporate tools into its sensory maps, making the artificial feel real. In the human brain, that capacity has advanced far beyond what's seen in our closest primate cousins. Our ability to meld with all manner of tools is one of the qualities that most distinguishes us as a species. In combination with our superior cognitive skills, it's what makes us so good at using new technologies. It's also what make us so goo at inventing them. Our brains can imagine the mechanics and the benefits of using a new device before that device even exists." p. 208.
I have shot with a 6x7 camera for the last 10 years. In LF, I use 4x5, 8x10 and other formats which share the same aspect ratio. When I shoot with cameras that have a different format, e.g. 35mm, 6x4.5 or 12x20, my photos are not nearly as strong. When I look through the viewfinder of a 35mm camera, I am sometimes surprised at how the framing in the viewfinder differs from my mental picture of the framing before I bring the camera to the eye. I suppose one way to put it is that I have internalized the 8x10 aspect ratio. When I am out looking to photograph, or I am setting up a still life in the studio, I "see" the photo in that aspect ratio in my head before ever raising the camera to my eye. What is interesting about the book is the science of just what it means to "internalize" something. According to the author, relying on the latest science, we literally change the internal structure of our brains in response to the tools we use.
