Sarah R. Beck

Innovative composite tool use by human children: adapting the golf club task from Goffin's cockatoos

We adapted a composite tool innovation task that had been solved by Goffin's cockatoos to be suitable for human children. Participants had to use a stick to push a ball onto a collapsible platform to release a reward. We tested a total of 204 participants: 187 children aged 4 to...