Amanda Seed

Amanda is interested in the evolution of flexible behaviour and abstract thought. In particular she studies the extent to which non-human primates and human children solve problems using object concepts and causal reasoning. She is also interested in how other cognitive processes (such as inhibition, working memory and attention) affect individual differences in performance on problem-solving tasks. The underlying question motivating her research is to uncover the evolutionary changes in representational and executive processes that marked the origins of uniquely human thinking.