Dr Nicola Cutting

• Lecturer
• School of Psychological & Social Sciences

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Article

Hamilton, Lorna G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-8252, O'Halloran, Isabelle and Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2020) Individual differences in narrative production in late childhood: Associations with age and fiction reading experience. First Language.

Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Beck, Sarah, Apperly, Ian and Chappell, Jackie (2019) Is tool modification more difficult than innovation? Cognitive Development, 52.

Whalley, Clare L., Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 and Beck, Sarah R. (2017) The effect of prior experience on children’s tool innovation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 161. pp. 81-94.

Beck, Sarah R., Williams, Clare, Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Apperly, Ian A. and Chappell, Jackie (2016) Individual differences in children's innovative problem-solving are not predicted by divergent thinking or executive functions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1690). p. 20150190.

Beck, Sarah R., Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Apperly, Ian A., Demery, Zoe, Iliffe, Leila, Rishi, Sonia and Chappell, Jackie (2014) Is tool-making knowledge robust over time and across problems? Frontiers in Psychology, 5.

Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Apperly, Ian A., Chappell, Jackie and Beck, Sarah R. (2014) The puzzling difficulty of tool innovation: Why can’t children piece their knowledge together? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 125. pp. 110-117.

Chappell, J., Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Apperly, I. A. and Beck, S. R. (2013) The development of tool manufacture in humans: what helps young children make innovative tools? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368 (1630). p. 20120409.

Beck, Sarah R., Chappell, Jackie, Apperly, Ian A. and Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2012) Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: A perspective from child development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (04). pp. 220-221.

Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Apperly, Ian A. and Beck, Sarah R. (2011) Why do children lack the flexibility to innovate tools? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109 (4). pp. 497-511.

Beck, Sarah R., Apperly, Ian A., Chappell, Jackie, Guthrie, Carlie and Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2011) Making tools isn’t child’s play. Cognition, 119 (2). pp. 301-306.

Book Section

Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2024) Why do children lack flexibility when making tools? The role of social learning in innovation. In: Charbonneau, Mathieu, (ed.) The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology). MIT Press, pp. 195-213

Chappell, Jackie, Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Tecwyn, Emma C., Apperly, Ian A., Beck, Sarah R. and Thorpe, Susannah K.S. (2015) Minding the gap: a comparative approach to studying the development of innovation. In: Animal Creativity and Innovation. Academic Press, pp. 287-316

Conference or Workshop Item

Hamilton, Lorna G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-8252 and Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2018) Fiction reading experience predicts narrative production skills in 9- to 12-year-old children. In: British Psychological Society Developmental Section conference 2017, 13-15 September 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Hamilton, Lorna G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-8252 and Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566 (2018) Fiction reading experience predicts narrative production skills in 9- to 12-year-old children. In: Child Language Symposium, 25th - 26th June, 2018, Reading, UK.