Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development
- PMID: 22697301
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11001877
Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development
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.
Comment in
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From individual cognition to populational culture.Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug;35(4):245-62. doi: 10.1017/s0140525x11002196. Behav Brain Sci. 2012. PMID: 22966488
Comment on
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The cognitive bases of human tool use.Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug;35(4):203-18. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001452. Epub 2012 Jun 15. Behav Brain Sci. 2012. PMID: 22697258
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