ReviewTopics in cognitive science2020
Structured Sequence Learning: Animal Abilities, Cognitive Operations, and Language Evolution.
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- Sequences and animal intelligence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
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- Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: crossing the species gap.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: From encoding to 6-month retention.Current research in neurobiology · 2023Article
- Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence reading reveals a consistent electrophysiological pattern of highly interactive syntactic and semantic processing: An ERP study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Exploring the neurobiology of Merge at a basic level: insights from a novel artificial grammar paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music: a bottom-up perspective.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Review
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- Hierarchical syntactic processing is beyond mere associating: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence from a novel artificial grammar.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Structured Sequence Learning: Animal Abilities, Cognitive Operations, and Language Evolution.Topics in cognitive science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Human language is a salient example of a neurocognitive system that is specialized to process complex dependencies between sensory events distributed in time, yet how this system evolved and specialized remains unclear. Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) studies have generated a wealth of insights into how human adults and infants process different types of sequencing dependencies of varying complexity. The AGL paradigm has also been adopted to examine the sequence processing abilities of nonhuman animals. We critically evaluate this growing literature in species ranging from mammals (primates and rats) to birds (pigeons, songbirds, and parrots) considering also cross-species comparisons. The findings are contrasted with seminal studies in human infants that motivated the work in nonhuman animals. This synopsis identifies advances in knowledge and where uncertainty remains regarding the various strategies that nonhuman animals can adopt for processing sequencing dependencies. The paucity of evidence in the few species studied to date and the need for follow-up experiments indicate that we do not yet understand the limits of animal sequence processing capacities and thereby the evolutionary pattern. This vibrant, yet still budding, field of research carries substantial promise for advancing knowledge on animal abilities, cognitive substrates, and language evolution.
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