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Young children fail to generate an additive ratchet effect in an open-ended construction task

The ratchet effect–the gradual accumulation of changes within a cultural trait beyond a level that individuals can achieve on their own–arguably rests on two key cognitive abilities: high-fidelity social learning and innovation. Researchers have started to simulate the ratchet effect in the laborato...

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Autores principales: Reindl, Eva, Tennie, Claudio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6005566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29912882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197828