Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task

Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task

Some theories propose that human cumulative culture is dependent on explicit, system-2, metacognitive processes. To test this, we investigated whether access to working memory is required for cumulative cultural evolution. We restricted access to adults’ working-memory (WM) via a dual-task paradigm,...

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Main Authors: Juliet Dunstone, Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Christine A. Caldwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
cumulative culture
cultural evolution
working memory
metacognition
dual-task
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/3/325

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