The Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Inquiring Minds: Studies of Causal Reasoning; Curiosity and Executive Control

Project Information

INQMINDS

Grant agreement ID: 639072

DOI 10.3030/639072

Project closed

EC signature date 14 July 2015

Start date 1 August 2015

End date 31 January 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 500 000,00

EU contribution € 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Understanding Solidity: Investigating Knowledge of a Functional Object Property in Brown Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella) and Common Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)

Author(s): Eleanor Jordan Christoph Voelter Amanda Seed
Published in: Animal Behavior and Cognition, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 365-391, ISSN 2372-4323
Publisher: Animal Behaviour and Cognition
DOI: 10.26451/abc.07.03.07.2020

What happened? Do preschool children and capuchin monkeys spontaneously use visual traces to locate a reward?

Author(s): Zeynep Civelek; Christoph J. Völter; Christoph J. Völter; Amanda M. Seed
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1101

Inferring unseen causes : developmental and evolutionary origins

Author(s): Civelek, Zeynep Call, Josep Seed, Amanda
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2020, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00872

Chimpanzees flexibly update working memory contents and show susceptibility to distraction in the self-ordered search task

Author(s): Völter, Christoph J.; Mundry, Roger; Call, Josep; Seed, Amanda M.
Published in: Proc Biol Sci, 2019, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0715

Better all by myself : gaining personal experience, not watching others, improves 3-year-olds’ performance in a causal trap task

Author(s): Yuniarto, Laras Gerson, Sarah Seed, Amanda Madeleine
Published in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104792

Inhibitory control and cue relevance modulate chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) performance in a spatial foraging task

Author(s): Völter, Christoph J. Tinklenberg, Brandon Call, Josep Seed, Amanda M.
Published in: Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2022, ISSN 0735-7036
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/com0000313

Comparative psychometrics: establishing what differs is central to understanding what evolves

Author(s): Christoph J. Völter, Brandon Tinklenberg, Josep Call, Amanda M. Seed
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 373/1756, 2018, Page(s) 20170283, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0283

Do capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) use exploration to form intuitions about physical properties?

Author(s): Eleanor Jordan Christoph Voelter Amanda Seed
Published in: Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2022, ISSN 0264-3294
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2022.2088273

The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees

Author(s): Voelter, Christoph J. Reindl, Eva Felsche, Elisa Civelek, Zeynep Whalen, Andrew Lugosi, Zsuzsa Duncan, Lisa Hermann, Esther Call, Josep Seed, Amanda M.
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08406-7

Thinking inside the box : mental manipulation of working memory contents in 3- to 7-year-old children

Author(s): Reindl, Eva Parkash, Divya Voelter, Christoph Johannes Seed, Amanda Madeleine
Published in: Cognitive Development, 2021, ISSN 0885-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101068

Exploring the development of attentional set shifting in young children with a novel Intradimensional/Extradimensional shift task

Author(s): Reindl, Eva Voelter, Christoph Campbell-May, Jessica Call, Josep Seed, Amanda
Published in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2022, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105428

Conference proceedings (2)

Sensitivity to Ostension is Not Sufficient for Pedagogical Reasoning by Toddlers

Author(s): Emma Tecwyn Amanda Seed Daphna Buchsbaum
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021, ISSN 1069-7977
Publisher: UC Merced

Exploring the use of overhypotheses by children and capuchin monkeys

Author(s): Elisa Felsche Patience Stevens Christoph Völter Daphna Buchsbaum Amanda Seed
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019, ISSN 1069-7977
Publisher: UC Merced