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Discovering and transmitting abstract knowledge over generations

2026-05-13

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<p>The complexity of human culture depends on people's ability to discover and transmit abstract knowledge. Studying this ability is crucial to understanding humans' distinctive place among species, but current experimental paradigms focus on the cultural transmission of specific, concrete facts rather than generalizable abstract knowledge. In this paper, we develop a crafting game paradigm to study how people dis...

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Literature Corpus work: fa01127f-c800-5b9f-8be8-dfb187039c05
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wu3qt_v1

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