The Reader Lab

The Reader Lab

We study the causes and consequences of innovation and social learning in animals and humans.

In particular, we have been looking at:

• the neuro-cognitive processes underlying the creation and acquisition of novel behaviour patterns
• the diffusion dynamics of acquired information
• the relationship between asocial and social learning
• the causes of individual, population and species-level variation in innovation and social learning propensities
• the role of innovation and social learning in brain evolution
• the evolutionary consequences of behavioural flexibility and the active role of behaviour in evolution.