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Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration (2022)
Journal Article
Kean, D., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., & Caldwell, C. A. (2023). Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration. Animal Cognition, 26(3), 435-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01654-0

The limited evidence of complex culture in non-human primates contrasts strikingly with human behaviour. This may be because non-human primates fail to use information acquired socially as effectively as they use information acquired individually. He... Read More about Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration.

Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight (2022)
Journal Article
Blakey, K. H., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., & Caldwell, C. A. (2022). Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight. Scientific Reports, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09092-1

To differentiate the use of simple associations from use of explicitly reasoned selective social learning, we can look for age-related changes in children’s behaviour that might signify a switch from one social learning strategy to the other. We pres... Read More about Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight.

Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task (2022)
Journal Article
Dunstone, J., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., & Caldwell, C. A. (2022). Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task. Entropy, 24(3), Article 325. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030325

Some theories propose that human cumulative culture is dependent on explicit, system-2, metacognitive processes. To test this, we investigated whether access to working memory is required for cumulative cultural evolution. We restricted access to adu... Read More about Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task.