ArticleCurrent biology : CB2018
Bio-Linguistics: Monkeys Break Through the Syntax Barrier.
Article in Current biology : CB, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Brain Inspired Sequences Production by Spiking Neural Networks With Reward-Modulated STDP.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Positional encoding in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus).Animal cognition · 2019Article
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Abstract
Macaque monkeys can be trained to produce complex spatial sequences beyond the simplest levels of grammar previously known from animal studies. This indicates cognitive capabilities in the spatial-motor domain that approach the computational complexity level of human syntax.
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