ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2022
Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures.
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- Brain areas for reversible symbolic reference, a potential singularity of the human brain.eLife · 2025Article
- Flexible Learning and Re-ordering of Context-dependent Object Sequences in Nonhuman Primates.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- [Neuronal plasticity changes in the central amygdala and prelimbic cortex network in mice with chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced depression].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2024Article
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Abstract
Sequence learning is a ubiquitous facet of human and animal cognition. Here, using a common sequence reproduction task, we investigated whether and how the ordinal and relational structures linking consecutive elements are acquired by human adults, children, and macaque monkeys. While children and monkeys exhibited significantly lower precision than adults for spatial location and temporal order information, only monkeys appeared to exceedingly focus on the first item. Most importantly, only humans, regardless of age, spontaneously extracted the spatial relations between consecutive items and used a chunking strategy to compress sequences in working memory. Monkeys did not detect such relational structures, even after extensive training. Monkey behavior was captured by a conjunctive coding model, whereas a chunk-based conjunctive model explained more variance in humans. These age- and species-related differences are indicative of developmental and evolutionary mechanisms of sequence encoding and may provide novel insights into the uniquely human cognitive capacities.
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