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    "pk": 50302,
    "title": "Children's division of cognitive labor: Evidence from Kenya and China",
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    "abstract": "No matter how brilliant, one person cannot achieve major technological innovations alone. Human progress relies upon our ability to think together, building beyond an existing foundation of cumulative cultural knowledge (Heinrich & Muthukrishna, 2024). From five-years-old, children show cooperative capacities fundamental to this collective success (Warneken et al., 2014; Fletcher et al., 2012). Yet, little is known about children's capacity to pool mental resources with cooperative partners – if they can think together as interconnected nodes to surpass individual computational limits (Velez et al., 2022). Prior developmental research also does not fully address cross-cultural diversity in children's cooperative strategy (Rogoff, 2014). Here, we investigate how pairs of children (N = 96 dyads) cooperate on a memory task across two cultural contexts – Nanyuki, Kenya and Beijing, China. We find that children flexibly employ different strategies based on the level of cognitive demand, pointing to an early capacity for strategic cognitive collaboration.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Psychology; Cognitive development; Distributed cognition; Social cognition; Cross-cultural analysis"
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            "first_name": "Colin",
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            "last_name": "Jacobs",
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            "institution": "UC Berkeley",
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            "first_name": "Dhara",
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            "last_name": "Yu",
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            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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            "first_name": "Zhen",
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            "institution": "Chinese Academy of Sciences",
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            "institution": "Sapienza University of Rome",
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            "last_name": "Thompson",
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            "institution": "UC Berkeley",
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            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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