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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The capacity to understand, construct, imagine and plan for the future goes hand in hand to
scaffold and support future-oriented cognition. The development of future-oriented cognition …