CORDIS Project
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This project investigates how humans and corvids understand causality and problem-solving through a comparative analysis of their cognitive mechanisms. By developing a theoretical framework, it aims to enhance our understanding of cognition and inform educational methods that align with children's natural learning proc…
Our ability to understand causality is at the very core of modern civilization.
We see potential antecedents of this understanding in some non-human animals, notably apes and corvids.
To date, behaviour thought to be indicative of causal understanding, particularly tool-use, has been mainly described as a phenomenon rather than studied as a mechanism and thus suffers from the lack of an experimentally-tested theoretical framework and deconstructive analysis.
This significantly constrains our pro…
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New Zealand, Auckland
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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