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Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state (2012)
Journal Article
Wood, L., Kendal, R., & Flynn, E. (2012). Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(4), 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.11.010

Many animals, including humans, acquire information through social learning. Although such information can be acquired easily, its potential unreliability means it should not be used indiscriminately. Cultural ‘transmission biases’ may allow individu... Read More about Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state.

Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays (2010)
Journal Article
Hopper, L., Flynn, E., Wood, L., & Whiten, A. (2010). Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 106(1), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2009.12.001

In the first of two experiments, we demonstrate the spread of a novel form of tool use across 20 “cultural generations” of child-to-child transmission. An experimentally seeded technique spread with 100% fidelity along twice as many “generations” as... Read More about Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays.