Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: A perspective from child development
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Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
Abstract
Recent data show that human children (up to 8 years old) perform poorly when required to innovate tools. Our tool-rich culture may be more reliant on social learning and more limited by domain-general constraints such as ill-structured problem solving than otherwise thought.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 220-221 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2012 |