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

Informazioni relative al progetto

RATCHETCOG

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 648841

DOI 10.3030/648841

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 21 Agosto 2015

Data di avvio 1 Settembre 2015

Data di completamento 28 Febbraio 2021

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale € 1 780 453,50

Contributo UE € 1 780 453,50

Coordinato da

THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
United Kingdom

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (25)

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

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

Beyond social learning

Autori: 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
Pubblicato in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0962-8436
Editore: 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

Autori: Juliet Dunstone; Mark Atkinson; Elizabeth Renner; Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Entropy; Volume 24; Numero 3; Pages: 325, Numero 5, 2022, Pagina/e e24030325, ISSN 1099-4300
Editore: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e24030325

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

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

Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture

Autori: Kirsten H. Blakey, Eva Rafetseder, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Fıa Cowan-Forsythe, Shivani J. Sati, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Plos One, Numero 16, 2021, Pagina/e e0256605, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: 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

Autori: Kirsten H. Blakey, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Eva Rafetseder, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Editore: 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

Autori: Elizabeth Renner, Rosyl S. Somai, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Clare Campbell, Donna Kean, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Infant and Child Development, 2021, ISSN 1522-7227
Editore: 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

Autori: Elizabeth Renner, Donna Kean, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Scientific Reports, Numero 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Editore: 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

Autori: Joshua March, Brier Rigby Dames, Christine Caldwell, Martin Doherty, Eva Rafetseder
Pubblicato in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Numero 190, 2020, Pagina/e 104713, ISSN 0022-0965
Editore: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104713

Neural responses when learning spatial and object sequencing tasks via imitation

Autori: Elizabeth Renner, Jessica P. White, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Francys Subiaul
Pubblicato in: PLOS ONE, Numero 13/8, 2018, Pagina/e e0201619, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201619

In the jungle of cultural complexity

Autori: Charlotte Elizabeth Holmes Wilks, Kirsten H. Blakey
Pubblicato in: Evolutionary Anthropology: Numeros, News, and Reviews, 2018, ISSN 1060-1538
Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21724

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

Autori: Juliet Dunstone, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Palgrave Communications, Numero 4/1, 2018, ISSN 2055-1045
Editore: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0200-y

Increasing population size can inhibit cumulative cultural evolution

Autori: Nicolas Fay, Naomi De Kleine, Bradley Walker, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, Pagina/e 201811413, ISSN 0027-8424
Editore: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811413116

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

Autori: Christine A. Caldwell, Hannah Cornish, Anne Kandler
Pubblicato in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Numero 371/1690, 2016, Pagina/e 20150193, ISSN 0962-8436
Editore: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0193

Experimental Approaches to Studying Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Autori: Christine A. Caldwell, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner
Pubblicato in: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Numero 25/3, 2016, Pagina/e 191-195, ISSN 0963-7214
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0963721416641049

Cultural diffusion in humans and other animals

Autori: Andrew Whiten, Christine A Caldwell, Alex Mesoudi
Pubblicato in: Current Opinion in Psychology, Numero 8, 2016, Pagina/e 15-21, ISSN 2352-250X
Editore: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.002

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

Autori: Christine A. Caldwell, Mark Atkinson, Kirsten H. Blakey, Juliet Dunstone, Donna Kean, Gemma Mackintosh, Elizabeth Renner, Charlotte E. H. Wilks
Pubblicato in: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2019, ISSN 1939-5078
Editore: 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

Autori: Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018, ISSN 1756-8757
Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12391

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

Autori: Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: PeerJ, Numero 7, 2019, Pagina/e e7960, ISSN 2167-8359
Editore: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7960

Human Teaching and Cumulative Cultural Evolution

Autori: Christine A. Caldwell, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson
Pubblicato in: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2017, ISSN 1878-5158
Editore: 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

Autori: Mark Atkinson, Kirsten H. Blakey, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Cognitive Science, 2020, ISSN 1551-6709
Editore: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12903

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

Autori: Charlotte E.H. Wilks, Eva Rafetseder, Elizabeth Renner, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Numero 204, 2021, Pagina/e 105031, ISSN 0022-0965
Editore: 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

Autori: Charlotte E. H. Wilks, Mark Atkinson, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: Culture and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2560-0982
Editore: AK Journals
DOI: 10.1556/2055.2021.00005

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

Autori: Amanda J. Lucas, Michael Kings, Devi Whittle, Emma Davey, Francesca Happé, Christine A. Caldwell, Alex Thornton
Pubblicato in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Numero 287/1939, 2020, Pagina/e 20201885, ISSN 0962-8452
Editore: 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

Autori: Juliet Dunstone, Mark Atkinson, Catherine Grainger, Elizabeth Renner, Christine A. Caldwell
Pubblicato in: PLOS ONE, Numero 16/3, 2021, Pagina/e e0247183, ISSN 1932-6203
Editore: 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

Autori: Juliet Dunstone
Pubblicato in: 2020
Editore: University of Stirling

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

Autori: Kirsten H. Blakey
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: University of Stirling

Cognitive Capacities Underlying Cumulative Culture: A Developmental Approach

Autori: Charlotte Wilks
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: University of Stirling

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

Autori: Gemma Mackintosh
Pubblicato in: 2021
Editore: University of Stirling