Outputs (5)

Influence of personality, age, sex, and oestrus state on chimpanzee problem-solving success (2013)
Journal Article
Hopper, L., Price, S., Freeman, H., Lambeth, S., Schapiro, S., & Kendal, R. (2014). Influence of personality, age, sex, and oestrus state on chimpanzee problem-solving success. Animal Cognition, 17(4), 835-847. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-013-0715-y

Despite the importance of individual problem solvers for group- and individual-level fitness, the correlates of individual problem-solving success are still an open topic of investigation. In addition to demographic factors, such as age or sex, certa... Read More about Influence of personality, age, sex, and oestrus state on chimpanzee problem-solving success.

Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in learning (2013)
Journal Article
Wood, L., Kendal, R., & Flynn, E. (2013). Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in learning. Developmental Review, 33(4), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2013.08.002

This review investigates the presence of young children’s model-based cultural transmission biases in social learning, arguing that such biases are adaptive and flexible. Section 1 offers five propositions regarding the presence and direction of mode... Read More about Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in learning.

Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Dean, L., Vale, G., Laland, K., Flynn, E., & Kendal, R. (2014). Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective. Biological Reviews, 89(2), 284-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12053

Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These similarities and differences have spawned a debate over whether ani... Read More about Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective.

Copy you or copy me? The effect of prior personally-acquired, and alternative method, information on imitation (2013)
Journal Article
Wood, L., Kendal, R., & Flynn, E. (2013). Copy you or copy me? The effect of prior personally-acquired, and alternative method, information on imitation. Cognition, 127(2), 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.002

The current study investigated children’s solution choice and imitation of causally-irrelevant actions by using a controlled design to mirror naturalistic learning contexts in which children receive social information for tasks about which they have... Read More about Copy you or copy me? The effect of prior personally-acquired, and alternative method, information on imitation.

Developmental niche construction (2013)
Journal Article
Flynn, E., Laland, K., Kendal, R., & Kendal, J. (2013). Developmental niche construction. Developmental Science, 16(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12030

Niche construction is the modification of components in an environment through an organism's activities. Humans modify their environments mainly through ontogenetic and cultural processes, and it is this reliance on learning, plasticity and culture t... Read More about Developmental niche construction.