Cumulative culture in the laboratory: methodological and theoretical challenges

Convergent transformation and selection in cultural evolution

(2018) Nicolas Claidière et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture

(2017) Gillian L. Vale et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children

(2017) Nicola McGuigan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups

(2017) Takao Sasaki et al.   Nature Communications

Inferring individual-level processes from population-level patterns in cultural evolution

(2017) Anne Kandler et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Young children copy cumulative technological design in the absence of action information

(2017) E. Reindl et al.   Scientific Reports

Identifying innovation in laboratory studies of cultural evolution: rates of retention and measures of adaptation

(2016) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Innovation in the collective brain

(2016) Michael Muthukrishna et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

(2016) Maxime Derex et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social learning solves the problem of narrow-peaked search landscapes: experimental evidence in humans

(2016) Alberto Acerbi et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2016) Sarah J. Davis et al.   Scientific Reports

The foundations of the human cultural niche

(2015) Maxime Derex et al.   Nature Communications

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

(2015) T. J. H. Morgan et al.   Nature Communications

Cognitive requirements of cumulative culture: teaching is useful but not essential

(2015) Elena Zwirner et al.   Scientific Reports

An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation

(2014) Marius Kempe et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Persistence of Contrasting Traditions in Cultural Evolution: Unpredictable Payoffs Generate Slower Rates of Cultural Change

(2014) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   PLoS One

Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

(2013) Lewis G. Dean et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How does competition affect the transmission of information?

(2013) Maxime Derex et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

(2013) Maxime Derex et al.   NATURE

Syntax in a pianist's hand: ERP signatures of “embodied” syntax processing in music

(2012) Daniela Sammler et al.   CORTEX

SOCIAL LEARNERS REQUIRE PROCESS INFORMATION TO OUTPERFORM INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS

(2012) Maxime Derex et al.   EVOLUTION

Cultural Evolution and Perpetuation of Arbitrary Communicative Conventions in Experimental Microsocieties

(2012) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   PLoS One

Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

(2012) L. G. Dean et al.   SCIENCE

Cultural transmission in the laboratory: agent interaction improves the intergenerational transfer of information

(2011) Rachael Tan et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

The advantage of multiple cultural parents in the cultural transmission of stories

(2011) Kimmo Eriksson et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces

(2011) Alberto Acerbi et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   PLoS One

Human cumulative culture in the laboratory: Effects of (micro) population size

(2010) C. A. Caldwell et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Conservatism in laboratory microsocieties: unpredictable payoffs accentuate group-specific traditions

(2009) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs

(2008) Alex Mesoudi   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Experimental models for testing hypotheses about cumulative cultural evolution

(2008) Christine A. Caldwell et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

(2008) E. Flynn   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Studying cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory

(2008) C. A Caldwell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution

(2008) A. Mesoudi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

(2008) S. Kirby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA