The Cog in the Ratchet: Illuminating the Cognitive Mechanisms Generating Human Cumulative Culture

Project Information

RATCHETCOG

Grant agreement ID: 648841

DOI

10.3030/648841

Project closed

EC signature date 21 August 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 28 February 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 780 453,50

EU contribution

€ 1 780 453,50

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children

Author(s): Kirsten H. Blakey; Mark Atkinson; Eva Rafetseder; Elizabeth Renner; Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Journal of experimental child psychology, 2022, Vol.215, pp.105325 [Peer Reviewed Journal], Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325

Beyond social learning

Author(s): Manvir Singh, Alberto Acerbi, Christine Caldwell, Étienne Danchin, Guillaume Isabel, Lucas Molleman, Thom Scott-Phillips, Monica Tamariz, Pieter van den Berg, Edwin van Leeuwen, Maxime Derex
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0050

Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task

Author(s): Juliet Dunstone; Mark Atkinson; Elizabeth Renner; Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Entropy; Volume 24; Issue 3; Pages: 325, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) e24030325, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e24030325

Robust, source-independent biases in children’s use of socially and individually acquired information.

Author(s): Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Bill Thompson, Gemma Mackintosh, Dongjie Xie, Yanjie Su, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000959

Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture

Author(s): Kirsten H. Blakey, Eva Rafetseder, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Fıa Cowan-Forsythe, Shivani J. Sati, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Plos One, Issue 16, 2021, Page(s) e0256605, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256605

Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight

Author(s): Kirsten H. Blakey, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Eva Rafetseder, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09092-1

Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children

Author(s): Elizabeth Renner, Rosyl S. Somai, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Clare Campbell, Donna Kean, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Infant and Child Development, 2021, ISSN 1522-7227
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/icd.2277

The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task

Author(s): Elizabeth Renner, Donna Kean, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80221-4

The role of context in “over-imitation”: Evidence of movement-based goal inference in young children

Author(s): Joshua March, Brier Rigby Dames, Christine Caldwell, Martin Doherty, Eva Rafetseder
Published in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Issue 190, 2020, Page(s) 104713, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104713

Neural responses when learning spatial and object sequencing tasks via imitation

Author(s): Elizabeth Renner, Jessica P. White, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Francys Subiaul
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/8, 2018, Page(s) e0201619, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201619

In the jungle of cultural complexity

Author(s): Charlotte Elizabeth Holmes Wilks, Kirsten H. Blakey
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2018, ISSN 1060-1538
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21724

Cumulative culture and explicit metacognition: a review of theories, evidence and key predictions

Author(s): Juliet Dunstone, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Palgrave Communications, Issue 4/1, 2018, ISSN 2055-1045
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0200-y

Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution

Author(s): Nicolas Fay, Naomi De Kleine, Bradley Walker, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, Page(s) 201811413, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811413116

Identifying innovation in laboratory studies of cultural evolution: rates of retention and measures of adaptation

Author(s): Christine A. Caldwell, Hannah Cornish, Anne Kandler
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 371/1690, 2016, Page(s) 20150193, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0193

Experimental Approaches to Studying Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Author(s): Christine A. Caldwell, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner
Published in: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Issue 25/3, 2016, Page(s) 191-195, ISSN 0963-7214
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0963721416641049

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

Author(s): Andrew Whiten, Christine A Caldwell, Alex Mesoudi
Published in: Current Opinion in Psychology, Issue 8, 2016, Page(s) 15-21, ISSN 2352-250X
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.002

Experimental assessment of capacities for cumulative culture: Review and evaluation of methods

Author(s): Christine A. Caldwell, Mark Atkinson, Kirsten H. Blakey, Juliet Dunstone, Donna Kean, Gemma Mackintosh, Elizabeth Renner, Charlotte E. H. Wilks
Published in: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2019, ISSN 1939-5078
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1516

Using Experimental Research Designs to Explore the Scope of Cumulative Culture in Humans and Other Animals

Author(s): Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018, ISSN 1756-8757
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12391

Squirrel monkey responses to information from social demonstration and individual exploration using touchscreen and object choice tasks

Author(s): Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) e7960, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7960

Human Teaching and Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Author(s): Christine A. Caldwell, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson
Published in: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2017, ISSN 1878-5158
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-017-0346-3

Inferring Behavior From Partial Social Information Plays Little or No Role in the Cultural Transmission of Adaptive Traits

Author(s): Mark Atkinson, Kirsten H. Blakey, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Cognitive Science, 2020, ISSN 1551-6709
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12903

Cognitive prerequisites for cumulative culture are context-dependent: Children’s potential for ratcheting depends on cue longevity

Author(s): Charlotte E.H. Wilks, Eva Rafetseder, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Issue 204, 2021, Page(s) 105031, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105031

Children’s use of social information from multiple models: Cognitive capacities underlying population size effects on cumulative culture

Author(s): Charlotte E. H. Wilks, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: Culture and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2560-0982
Publisher: AK Journals
DOI: 10.1556/2055.2021.00005

The value of teaching increases with tool complexity in cumulative cultural evolution

Author(s): Amanda J. Lucas, Michael Kings, Devi Whittle, Emma Davey, Francesca Happé, Christine A. Caldwell, Alex Thornton
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1939, 2020, Page(s) 20201885, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1885

Limited evidence for executive function load impairing selective copying in a win-stay lose-shift task

Author(s): Juliet Dunstone, Mark Atkinson, Catherine Grainger, Elizabeth Renner, Christine A. Caldwell
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 16/3, 2021, Page(s) e0247183, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247183

Thesis and dissertations (4)

Who knows what they know? An experimental investigation into the impact of explicit metacognition on cumulative cultural evolution

Author(s): Juliet Dunstone
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Stirling

Developing Distinctively Human Cumulative Culture: Age-Related Changes in Social Information Use

Author(s): Kirsten H. Blakey
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Stirling

Cognitive Capacities Underlying Cumulative Culture: A Developmental Approach

Author(s): Charlotte Wilks
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Stirling

The role of mental state understanding in distinctively human cumulative cultural evolution

Author(s): Gemma Mackintosh
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Stirling