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Kean D, Renner E, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2023) Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration. Animal Cognition, 26 (2), pp. 435-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01654-0
Project
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Funded by European Commission (Horizon 2020).
Total award value £1,518,712.31
Professor Christine Anna Caldwell
Professor, Psychology
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Kean D, Renner E, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2023) Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration. Animal Cognition, 26 (2), pp. 435-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01654-0
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Blakey KH, Renner E, Atkinson M, Rafetseder E & Caldwell CA (2022) Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), Art. No.: 5045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09092-1
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Wilks CEH, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2022) Children's use of social information from multiple models: Cognitive capacities underlying population size effects on cumulative culture. Culture and Evolution. https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2055/aop/article-10.1556-2055.2021.00005/article-10.1556-2055.2021.00005.xml; https://doi.org/10.1556/2055.2021.00005
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Blakey KH, Atkinson M, Rafetseder E, Renner E & Caldwell CA (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, Art. No.: 105325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325
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Dunstone J, Atkinson M, Renner E & Caldwell CA (2022) Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task. Entropy, 24 (3), Art. No.: 325. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030325
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Renner E, Kean D, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2021) The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), Art. No.: 1043. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80221-4
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Dunstone J, Atkinson M, Grainger C, Renner E & Caldwell CA (2021) Limited evidence for executive function load impairing selective copying in a win-stay lose-shift task. PLOS ONE, 16 (3), Art. No.: e0247183. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247183
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Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture
Blakey KH, Rafetseder E, Atkinson M, Renner E, Cowan-Forsythe F, Sati SJ & Caldwell CA (2021) Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture. PLOS ONE, 16 (8), Art. No.: e0256605. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605
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Renner E, Somai RS, Van der Stigchel S, Campbell C, Kean D & Caldwell CA (2021) Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children. Infant and Child Development, 30 (6), Art. No.: e2277. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2277
Review
Singh M, Acerbi A, Caldwell CA, Danchin E, Isabel G, Molleman L, Scott-Phillips T, Tamariz M, van den Berg P, van Leeuwen E & Derex M (2021) Beyond social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1828), Art. No.: 20200050. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0050
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Atkinson M, Renner E, Thompson B, Mackintosh G, Xie D, Su Y & Caldwell CA (2021) Robust, source-independent biases in children's use of socially and individually acquired information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150 (4), pp. 778-791. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000959
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Wilks CEH, Rafetseder E, Renner E, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2021) Cognitive Prerequisites for Cumulative Culture are Context-Dependent: Children's Potential for Ratcheting Depends on Cue Longevity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 204, Art. No.: 105031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105031
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Specialization in the vicarious learning of novel arbitrary sequences in humans but not orangutans
Renner E, Patterson EM & Subiaul F (2020) Specialization in the vicarious learning of novel arbitrary sequences in humans but not orangutans. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 375 (1805), p. 20190442. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0442
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Caldwell CA (2020) Using experimental research designs to explore the scope of cumulative culture in humans and other animals. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12 (2), pp. 673-689. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12391
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The role of context in "over-imitation": Evidence of movement-based goal inference in young children
March J, Rigby Dames B, Caldwell C, Doherty M & Rafetseder E (2020) The role of context in "over-imitation": Evidence of movement-based goal inference in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 190, Art. No.: 104713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104713
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Experimental assessment of capacities for cumulative culture: Review and evaluation of methods
Caldwell CA, Atkinson M, Blakey KH, Dunstone J, Kean D, Mackintosh G, Renner E & Wilks CEH (2020) Experimental assessment of capacities for cumulative culture: Review and evaluation of methods. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11 (1), Art. No.: e1516. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1516
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Renner E, Atkinson M & Caldwell CA (2019) Squirrel monkey responses to information from social demonstration and individual exploration using touchscreen and object choice tasks. PeerJ, 7, p. e7960. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7960
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Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution
Fay N, De Kleine N, Walker B & Caldwell CA (2019) Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (14), pp. 6726-6731. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811413116
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Human teaching and cumulative cultural evolution
Caldwell CA, Renner E & Atkinson M (2018) Human teaching and cumulative cultural evolution. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9 (4), pp. 751-770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-017-0346-3
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Cumulative culture and explicit metacognition: a review of theories, evidence and key predictions
Dunstone J & Caldwell CA (2018) Cumulative culture and explicit metacognition: a review of theories, evidence and key predictions. Palgrave Communications, 4 (1), Art. No.: 145. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0200-y
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In the jungle of cultural complexity
Wilks CEH & Blakey KH (2018) In the jungle of cultural complexity. Evolutionary Anthropology, 27 (5), pp. 180-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21724
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Neural responses when learning spatial and object sequencing tasks via imitation
Renner E, White JP, Hamilton AFC & Subiaul F (2018) Neural responses when learning spatial and object sequencing tasks via imitation. PLoS One, 13 (8), Art. No.: e0201619. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201619
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Experimental approaches to studying cumulative cultural evolution
Caldwell CA, Atkinson M & Renner E (2016) Experimental approaches to studying cumulative cultural evolution. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25 (3), pp. 191-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416641049
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Caldwell CA, Cornish H & Kandler A (2016) Identifying innovation in laboratory studies of cultural evolution: rates of retention and measures of adaptation. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1690), Art. No.: 20150193. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0193