Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens)

By V. Horner, Andrew Whiten. Animal Cognition, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Abstraction Levels for Robotic Imitation: Overview and Computational Approaches (2010, background): “For example, in [62], preschoolers and chimpanzees were presented with two identical boxes, one opaque and one transparent.”
Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning (2013, background): “…and three-year olds do not copy the irrelevant actions demonstrated by a peer to the same extent as when demonstrated by adult models (Flynn, 2008; Horner & Whiten, 2005), and three- and five-year-olds copy relevant actions of both child and adult models but only faithfully reproduce the…”
An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011, background): “Social learning is widespread in the animal kingdom (Galef & Laland, 2005) and especially pronounced in humans (Herrmann, Call, Hernandez-Lloreda, Hare & Tomasello, 2007; Horner & Whiten, 2005).”
The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning. (2016, background): “In the wake of a demonstration, they are prone to emulate what they have observed but they eliminate unnecessary and ineffective components (Horner & Whiten, 2005).”
A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms (2009, background): “…about which actions should be imitated (Gergely, Bekkering, & Kiraly, 2002; Williamson & Markman, 2006) but in general they are rather prone to imitate even parts of action sequences that are not obviously necessary to achieve the goal—a phenomenon known as over-imitation (Horner & Whiten, 2005).”
Investigating the Mechanisms of Cultural Acquisition How Pervasive is Overimitation in Adults (2012, methodology): “In order to compare our findings with those of Horner and Whiten (2005) and McGuigan et al.”
Elephant cognition in primate perspective (2009, background): “Chimpanzees also gave evidence of some sort of causal understanding, when showing selectivity in what to copy (Horner & Whiten, 2005).”
Bootstrapping intrinsically motivated learning with human demonstration (2011, background): “isfyingly represent social learning, as young children are prone to imitate the action sequences, even parts that are not obviously necessary to achieve the goal: a phenomenon known as over-imitation [33]. 5) The teacher shows both a means and a goal: SocInter H2A Y. This is a typical imitation beha”
Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state (2012, background): “The control group was relatively small as the GCB has been administered in several experiments (Flynn, 2008; Horner & Whiten, 2005; McGuigan et al., 2007, 2011) with controls showing similar levels of interaction and success as shown in the current experiment.”
Learning From Others (2012, positive): “A variety of recent studies have shown that, when learning, children appear to be overly faithful to actions produced by demonstrators, even repeating actions that are clearly superfluous to eliciting the desired outcome (Horner & Whiten, 2005; Lyons, Young, & Keil, 2007; Meltzoff, 1995).”
Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution (2007, background): “First, while chimpanzees do show some capacities for imitative learning (Horner and Whiten, 2005; Whiten et aI., 2005), their cultural transmission shows substantially lower degrees of fidelity, frequency and internal motivation.”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, neutral): “Of course, mental representations do not really exist as small discrete sets of memes that can be copied directly, and they will not contribute to performance or fitness in a simple additive manner [2, 46, 63], but this simplification is a useful”