The dominant view of cumulative technological culture suggests that high-fidelity
transmission rests upon a high-fidelity copying ability, which allows individuals to reproduce …

Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of
cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal understanding, namely
technical reasoning, may support the increasing complexity of tools and techniques …

Here we explore variation and similarities in the two best-represented population groups
who lived during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic—the Neanderthals and …

Our ability to understand how to interact with familiar objects is supported by conceptual tool
knowledge. Conceptual tool knowledge includes action tool and semantic tool knowledge …

Humans can follow different social learning strategies, sometimes oriented toward the
models' characteristics (ie, who-strategies). The goal of the present study was to explore …

Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit
occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use …

Successful engagement with the world requires the ability to predict what will happen next.
Here, we investigate how the brain makes a fundamental prediction about the physical …

The ubiquity of tool use in human life has generated multiple lines of scientific and
philosophical investigation to understand the development and expression of humans' …