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Amanda Seed

New study on chimpanzee working memory

Chimpanzees flexibly update working memory contents and show susceptibility to distraction in the self-ordered search task https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2019.0715 “Our findings suggest that…

Can four-year-olds really plan for the future?

        A new test for future planning (Dickerson et al in press) that controls for association finds that four-year-olds may be influenced more by an object’s associative value than its future usefulness.…