“Is tool modification more difficult than innovation?” – Dr Nicola Cutting et al.

It is important to note that whilst addressing important questions about the nature of children’s innovative abilities, the current research on children’s tool innovation has been limited to very few paradigms…

– Cutting et al. (10)

This article by Dr Nicola Cutting and colleagues details two experiments conducted in order to explore the overlooked social influences on children’s ability to innovate their own tools from already modified materials.

The current studies aimed to discover how the presence of modified materials would affect children’s ability to innovate tools and consequently to explore children’s capacity for innovation by modification.

– Cutting et al. (9)

This article can be downloaded here via York St John institutional access.