Measuring spontaneous episodic future thinking in children: Challenges and opportunities

QA Pham, G Ayson, CM Atance, TL Blankenship - Learning & behavior, 2024 - Springer
The “Spoon task” is a common measure of episodic future thinking (ie, ability to imagine
hypothetical future events) in children. However, by providing items and prompting children …

New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use

M Boeckle, M Schiestl… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability to plan for future events is one of the defining features of human intelligence.
Whether non-human animals can plan for specific future situations remains contentious …

Self-care tooling innovation in a disabled kea (Nestor notabilis)

APM Bastos, K Horváth, JL Webb, PM Wood… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Tooling is associated with complex cognitive abilities, occurring most regularly in large-
brained mammals and birds. Among birds, self-care tooling is seemingly rare in the wild …

Stone tools, predictive processing and the evolution of language

R Pain - Mind & Language, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work by Stout and colleagues indicates that the neural correlates of language and
Early Stone Age toolmaking overlap significantly. The aim of this paper is to add …

Higher cognitive abilities in birds: A comparative evolutionary analysis

ZA Zorina, TA Obozova, AA Smirnova - Neuroscience and Behavioral …, 2022 - Springer
Comparative analysis of higher cognitive abilities in animals provides for assessment of the
evolutionary underpinnings of the formation of human thought and language. This review …

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

E Reindl, C Tennie, IA Apperly, Z Lugosi… - Evolutionary human …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Associative Tool Use (ATU) describes the use of two or more tools in combination, with the
literature further differentiating between Tool set use, Tool composite use, Sequential tool …

Memories for the future

M Boeckle, U Kramer, NS Clayton - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Our understanding of episodic memory has evolved significantly, revealing its critical role in
sha** decision-making for current and future events. The special issue of" Memories for …

A novel test of flexible planning in relation to executive function and language in young children

R Miller, A Frohnwieser, N Ding… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In adult humans, decisions involving the choice and use of tools for future events typically
require episodic foresight. Previous studies suggest some non-human species are capable …

Mind the gap: a more evolutionarily plausible role for technical reasoning in cumulative technological culture

R Pain, RL Brown - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
How do technologies that are too complex for any one individual to produce (“cumulative
technological culture”) arise and persist in human populations? Contra prevailing views …

Высшие когнитивные способности птиц: сравнительно-эволюционный анализ

ЗА Зорина, ТА Обозова, АА Смирнова - Журнал высшей нервной …, 2021 - elibrary.ru
Сравнительное исследование высших когнитивных способностей животных позволяет
оценить эволюционные предпосылки формирования мышления и языка человека. В …