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    "pk": 21441,
    "title": "Innovating for the future: When do children begin to recognise and manufacture solutions to future problems?",
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    "abstract": "Innovation in children is typically studied by examining their capacity to create novel tools. However, innovation also involves recognising the future utility of a solution. Across two experiments, we examined children's capacity to recognise and construct a tool for future uses. Experiment One presented 3- to 5-year-olds (N=55) with a future-directed problem-solving task. When given a tool construction opportunity in anticipation of returning to the task, only 5-year-olds made the correctly shaped tool above chance levels. Experiment Two assessed 3- to 7-year-olds' (N=92) capacity to build a tool with future, as well as present, utility in mind. Age was positively associated with constructing a tool of greater utility than necessary to solve the present task. Children's propensity to construct longer tools was associated with their capacity to prepare for two alternative possibilities on a secondary task, suggesting performance on our innovation task reflects emerging future-oriented cognition.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Zoe",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ockerby",
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            "institution": "The University of Queensland",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Suddendorf",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Queensland",
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            "first_name": "Jonathan",
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            "last_name": "Redshaw",
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            "institution": "University of Queensland",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2024-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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