Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour

Reindl, Eva; Tennie, Claudio; Apperly, Ian A.; Lugosi, Zsuzsa; Beck, Sarah R.

doi:10.1017/ehs.2022.4

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“…Here, we work with the strongest version, as we think (i) it makes for a clearer exposition, and, importantly, (ii) it is consistent with current evidence. That said, should the evidence ultimately refute this version, the weaker versions of the hypothesis would remain viable, (see also Reindl et al 2022). Terminology is a necessary evil.…”

Section: Introduction: Varieties Of Cultural Learningmentioning

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Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins

Planer,

Bandini,

Tennie

2023

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Culture and communication are widespread in the animal kingdom. However, among apes, only the human line has evolved these into something altogether different. Moreover, our extraordinary cultural and communicative capacities underlie much else of what makes our species stand out among apes. Thus, understanding the how and why of the process by which these capacities were transformed from their great ape-like precursors into their modern human equivalents is of fundamental importance to the challenge of understanding the evolution of our species more generally. In this chapter, we take up these questions using a novel framework for thinking about social learning. We hypothesize that human apes show a unique propensity for a certain type of social learning, which we call “know-how copying.” Know-how copying is considered foundational to our species’ well-known capacity to culturally evolve both behaviour and artifact forms that can far exceed anything a single individual could realistically invent on his or her own. This copying is therefore also foundational to our species’ capacity to construct, maintain and expand the large lexicons of (often) arbitrary signs that underlie human languages. After discussing the various methodologies that are available for testing whether a given type of human or animal culture is demanding of know-how copying, we turn to the archaeological record with an eye towards identifying plausible signatures of the origins of know-how copying in the human line. In particular, we examine the course of hominin technological evolution – as the most visible and most frequent data. We suggest a much later date for the origins of know-how copying than is typically assumed. But this poses a deep puzzle, namely: there is good reason to think that hominins had considerably expanded their communicative repertoire prior to the evolution of know-how copying. How was this possible in the seeming absence of know-how copying? We sketch a solution to this puzzle which we think provides an additional argument in support of a gestural-iconic origins scenario for language.

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Section: Introduction: Varieties Of Cultural Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins

Planer,

Bandini,

Tennie

2023

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Tool use acquisition induces a multifunctional interference effect during object processing: evidence from the sensorimotor mu rhythm

Foerster

2023

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Sustained Shared Thinking fördert das innovative Verhalten vier- bis sechsjähriger Kinder

Szymanski,

Hildebrandt,

Wronski

2024

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Zusammenfassung: Empirische Studien zeigen, dass in pädagogischen Interaktionen mit Erwachsenen die kindliche Imitation beobachteter Handlungen überwiegt. Diese Imitationstendenz kann durch einen instruktiven Interaktionsstil der erwachsenen Person verstärkt werden. Innovatives Verhalten wird dabei verringert. Die Generierung eigener, neuer Handlungsmöglichkeiten ist jedoch wichtiger Bestandteil von Exploration und aktivem Lernen. Das pädagogische Interaktionsformat des Sustained Shared Thinking (SST) hat sich als förderlich für die Hypothesengenerierung bei Kindern erwiesen. In der vorliegenden Studie wurden Einflüsse von SST-Sprachelementen auf das innovative Verhalten im Kindergartenalter untersucht. Dazu wurde 4- bis 6-jährigen Kindern ( N = 51) in drei unterschiedlichen Interaktionsbedingungen (instruktiv, SST und neutral) eine neuartiges Kartenlegespiel demonstriert, das sie anschließend selbst nachlegen konnten. Handlungen der Kinder wurden als innovativ (Abweichung von Muster und Anzahl der gelegten Karten) oder imitativ (Kopie von Muster und Anzahl der gelegten Karten) codiert. Kinder in der SST-Bedingung zeigten mehr innovative Handlungen als Kinder in der instruktiven Bedingung. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass Anwendung von SST-Sprechhandlungen einen positiven Einfluss auf das innovative Verhalten von Kindern haben kann.

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Young children spontaneously invent three different types of associative tool use behaviour

Cited by 6 publications

References 127 publications

Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins

Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins

Tool use acquisition induces a multifunctional interference effect during object processing: evidence from the sensorimotor mu rhythm

Sustained Shared Thinking fördert das innovative Verhalten vier- bis sechsjähriger Kinder

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