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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.

Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children (2021)
Journal Article
Blakey, K. H., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., & Caldwell, C. A. (2022). Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 215, Article 105325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325

The ability to take mental states such as goals into account when interpreting others’ behavior has been proposed to be what sets human use of social information apart from that of other animals. If so, children’s social information use would be expe... Read More about Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children.

Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture (2021)
Journal Article
Blakey, K. H., Rafetseder, E., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Cowan-Forsythe, F., Sati, S. J., & Caldwell, C. A. (2021). Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture. PLoS ONE, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605

Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful information. Yet, t... Read More about Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture.

The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task (2021)
Journal Article
Renner, E., Kean, D., Atkinson, M., & Caldwell, C. A. (2021). The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 1043. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80221-4

The distinctiveness of human cumulative culture raises the question of whether humans respond differently to information originating from social sources, compared with information from other sources. Further, does any such differential responding set... Read More about The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task.