ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours.
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- Children's limited tooling ability in a novel concurrent tool use task supports the innovation gap.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Linguacultural and Cognitive Peculiarities of Linguistic Universals.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2024Article
- Evidence for a Shared Instrument Prototype from English, Dutch, and German.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Article
- Children and innovation: play, play objects and object play in cultural evolution.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Review
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- A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures.Biology & philosophy · 2020Article
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Abstract
Through the mechanisms of observation, imitation and teaching, young children readily pick up the tool using behaviours of their culture. However, little is known about the baseline abilities of children's tool use: what they might be capable of inventing on their own in the absence of socially provided information. It has been shown that children can spontaneously invent 11 of 12 candidate tool using behaviours observed within the foraging behaviours of wild non-human apes (Reindl
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