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SUBMITTER: Wertz AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4345201 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20140129 4
Recent research underscores the importance of social learning to the development of food preferences. Here, we explore whether social information about edibility--an adult placing something in his or her mouth--can be selectively tied to certain types of entities. Given that humans have relied on gathered plant resources across evolutionary time, and given the costs of trial-and-error learning, we predicted that human infants may possess selective social learning strategies that rapidly identify ...[more]