Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee

By Andrew Whiten, N. McGuigan, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Lydia M. Hopper. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Minds: extended or scaffolded? (2010, background): “Likely examples are those skills involved in the production of the simplest flake-and-cobble stone technology, a simple and ancient technology that already shows an advance on chimpanzee skill levels (Whiten et al. 2009a, b).”
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011, background): “Chimpanzees do not seem to make this assumption; they mainly skip the unnecessary steps, leading them to develop more efficient repertoires than children (53) in these experimental settings.”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “For this reason, we would not have been convinced of cumulative culture even if the chimpanzees tested by Marshall-Pescini & Whiten (2008) had shown an upgrade of technique (and the same is in principal true for the positive findings in human children of Whiten et al. (2009) ).”
The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture (2015, background): “…learning mechanisms relevant to such issues, have been 65 formulated on the basis of extensive studies across the animal kingdom (Fisher and Hinde, 66 1949; Galef, 1992; McQuoid and Galef, 1993; Heyes, 1994; Visalberghi and Fragaszy, 2002; 67 Zentall, 2003; Whiten et al., 2009b; Galef, 2012).”
Mechanisms of social cognition. (2012, background): “For example, chimpanzees will imitate a demonstrated sequence of actions to gain access to food in a puzzle box (see Whiten et al. 2009).”