Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions

The adaptive origins of uniquely human sociality

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The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning

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Cognitive consequences of our grandmothering life history: cultural learning begins in infancy

(2020) Kristen Hawkes   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parental presence switches avoidance to attraction learning in children

(2019) Nim Tottenham et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Reinforcement learning across development: What insights can we draw from a decade of research?

(2019) Kate Nussenbaum et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The adaptive significance of age-dependent changes in the tendency of individuals to explore

(2018) Thomas N. Sherratt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

(2018) Lucy M. Aplin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The algorithmic architecture of exploration in the human brain

(2018) Eric Schulz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Older, sociable capuchins (Cebus capucinus) invent more social behaviors, but younger monkeys innovate more in other contexts

(2017) Susan E. Perry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

(2017) Alison Gopnik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Foraging Cognition: Reviving the Ecological Intelligence Hypothesis

(2017) Alexandra G. Rosati   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Enhanced learning of natural visual sequences in newborn chicks

(2016) Justin N. Wood et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

(2016) C. Krupenye et al.   SCIENCE

Critical Periods in Speech Perception: New Directions

(2015) Janet F. Werker et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Adaptive explanations for sensitive windows in development

(2015) Tim W Fawcett et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Brain ontogeny and life history in Pleistocene hominins

(2015) J.-J. Hublin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Taking the Operant Paradigm into the Field: Associative Learning in Wild Great Tits

(2015) Julie Morand-Ferron et al.   PLoS One

Observing the unexpected enhances infants' learning and exploration

(2015) A. E. Stahl et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental mechanisms channeling cortical evolution

(2015) Barbara L. Finlay et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

The role of stimulus complexity, age and experience in the expression of exploratory behaviour in the Chimango Caracara, Milvago chimango

(2014) Laura Marina Biondi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Win-Stay, Lose-Sample: A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference

(2014) Elizabeth Bonawitz et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

(2014) C. W. Kuzawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: sampling in cognitive development

(2014) Elizabeth Bonawitz et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

(2013) Emilie C. Snell-Rood   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Effect of Age and Sex on Object Exploration and Manipulative Behavior in a Neotropical Raptor, the Chimango Caracara,Milvago chimango

(2013) Laura Marina Biondi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Noninvasive transcranial direct current stimulation over the left prefrontal cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility in tool use

(2013) Evangelia G. Chrysikou et al.   Cognitive Neuroscience

Children balance theories and evidence in exploration, explanation, and learning

(2012) Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Understanding adolescence as a period of social–affective engagement and goal flexibility

(2012) Eveline A. Crone et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The power of possibility: causal learning, counterfactual reasoning, and pretend play

(2012) D. Buchsbaum et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

(2012) S. Herculano-Houzel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Innovative problem solving by wild spotted hyenas

(2012) S. Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.

(2012) Alison Gopnik et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

The origins of inquiry: inductive inference and exploration in early childhood

(2012) Laura Schulz   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Reproductive tradeoffs of learning in a butterfly

(2011) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species

(2011) Julie Morand-Ferron et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Dynamic reconfiguration of human brain networks during learning

(2011) D. S. Bassett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Balancing sampling and specialization: an adaptationist model of incremental development

(2011) W. E. Frankenhuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Juvenile mice show greater flexibility in multiple choice reversal learning than adults

(2011) Carolyn Johnson et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Inter-individual and age differences in exploration, neophobia and problem-solving ability in a Neotropical raptor (Milvago chimango)

(2010) Laura Marina Biondi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Brain size, development and metabolism in birds and mammals

(2010) Peter M. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

(2010) J. C. Holzhaider et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Brain size, life history, and metabolism at the marsupial/placental dichotomy

(2010) V. Weisbecker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

(2010) T. M. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tools for thought or thoughts for tools?

(2009) A. Kacelnik   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparing responses to novel objects in wild baboons (Papio ursinus) and geladas (Theropithecus gelada)

(2008) Thore J. Bergman et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later

(2008) Josep Call et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES