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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.…

€1.5m ERC Starting Grant

We are very pleased to be able to give details about a grant that has recently been awarded to Amanda, for her project “The Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Inquiring Minds: Studies of Causal Reasoning;…

Seed Lab research in the papers

An article about research conducted in the Seed lab has been published in the Daily Mail! The study in question showed that non-human primates can understand the broken string problem and why an unbroken string will…

Welcome new members!

We’re pleased to welcome Puja Singh, doing a PhD, and Zeynep Civelek and Joléne van der Mescht doing MSc projects.  Puja and Jolene are jointly supervised by Juan Gomez and Zeynep by Josep Call.