Emma Flynn

Best Publications

• Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective.

  Lewis G. Dean;Gill L. Vale;Kevin N. Laland;Emma Flynn

  473
  Citations

• Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children.

  Victoria Horner;Andrew Whiten;Emma Flynn;Frans B. M. de Waal

  422
  Citations

• Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective

  Catherine J. Crompton;Danielle Ropar;Claire V. M. Evans-Williams;Emma G. Flynn

  415
  Citations

• Imitation of causally opaque versus causally transparent tool use by 3- and 5-year-old children

  Nicola McGuigan;Andrew Whiten;Emma Flynn;Victoria Horner

  399
  Citations

• 'I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people': A thematic analysis of autistic adults' relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family.

  Catherine J Crompton;Sonny Hallett;Danielle Ropar;Emma Flynn

  290
  Citations

• A longitudinal, microgenetic study of the emergence of false belief understanding and inhibition skills

  Emma Flynn;Claire O'Malley;David Wood

  249
  Citations

• Target article with commentaries: developmental niche construction.

  Emma G. Flynn;Kevin N. Laland;Rachel L. Kendal;Jeremy R. Kendal

  204
  Citations

• Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning

  Lara Amanda Natalia Wood;Rachel Kendal;Emma Flynn

  181
  Citations

• Eureka!: What Is Innovation, How Does It Develop, and Who Does It?

  Kayleigh Carr;Rachel L. Kendal;Emma G. Flynn

  165
  Citations

• Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

  Emma Flynn

  164
  Citations

• Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state

  Lara A. Wood;Rachel L. Kendal;Emma G. Flynn

  158
  Citations

• Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport.

  Catherine J. Crompton;Martha Sharp;Harriet Axbey;Sue Fletcher-Watson

  148
  Citations

• Investigating the Mechanisms of Cultural Acquisition How Pervasive is Overimitation in Adults

  Emma Flynn;Kenneth Smith

  130
  Citations

• Serial killers, spiders and cybersex: Social and survival information bias in the transmission of urban legends

  Joseph M. Stubbersfield;Jamshid J. Tehrani;Emma G. Flynn

  124
  Citations

• Imitation of hierarchical action structure by young children.

  Andrew Whiten;Emma Flynn;Katy Brown;Tanya Lee

  123
  Citations

• Cultural Transmission of Tool Use in Young Children: A Diffusion Chain Study

  Emma Flynn;Andrew Whiten

  114
  Citations

• The Role of Inhibitory Control in False Belief Understanding

  Emma Flynn

  113
  Citations

• Animal and human innovation: novel problems and novel solutions.

  Simon M. Reader;Julie Morand-Ferron;Emma Flynn

  112
  Citations

• Imitate or innovate? Children’s innovation is influenced by the efficacy of observed behaviour

  Kayleigh Carr;Rachel L. Kendal;Emma G. Flynn

  109
  Citations

• Copy me or copy you? The effect of prior experience on social learning.

  Lara A. Wood;Rachel L. Kendal;Emma G. Flynn

  106
  Citations