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Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates
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dc.contributor.author | Price, Elizabeth E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wood, Lara A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Whiten, Andrew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-22T23:32:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-22T23:32:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-08 | |
dc.identifier | 247863727 | |
dc.identifier | 9dde667e-dcab-4de9-97f2-6c21751c5cf5 | |
dc.identifier | 85007005309 | |
dc.identifier | 000404821500008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Price , E E , Wood , L A & Whiten , A 2017 , ' Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates ' , Infant Behavior and Development , vol. 48 , no. Part A , pp. 45-53 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.11.003 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0163-6383 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:196D4111947A7E3EC66B82B3D391D63F | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/13474 | |
dc.description | AW and LW were supported by grant ID 40128 from the John Templeton Foundation during the writing of this review. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Comparative and evolutionary developmental analyses seek to discover the similarities and differences between humans and non-human species that might illuminate both the evolutionary foundations of our nature that we share with other animals, and the distinctive characteristics that make human development unique. As our closest animal relatives, with whom we last shared common ancestry, non-human primates have been particularly important in this endeavour. Such studies have focused on social learning, traditions, and culture, and have discovered much about the ‘how’ of social learning, concerned with key underlying processes such as imitation and emulation. One of the core discoveries is that the adaptive adjustment of social learning options to different contexts is not unique to human, therefore multiple new strands of research have begun to focus on more subtle questions about when, from whom, and why such learning occurs. Here we review illustrative studies on both human infants and young children and on non-human primates to identify the similarities shared more broadly across the primate order, and the apparent specialisms that distinguish human development. Adaptive biases in social learning discussed include those modulated by task comprehension, experience, conformity to majorities, and the age, skill, proficiency and familiarity of potential alternative cultural models. | |
dc.format.extent | 9 | |
dc.format.extent | 330456 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Infant Behavior and Development | en |
dc.subject | Cultural transmission | en |
dc.subject | Social learning | en |
dc.subject | Model biases | en |
dc.subject | Children | en |
dc.subject | Infants | en |
dc.subject | Nonhuman primates | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates | en |
dc.type | Journal item | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | John Templeton Foundation | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.11.003 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2018-05-22 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 40128 | en |
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