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SUBMITTER: Jiang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6606444 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Xinjian X Long Tenghai T Cao Weicong W Li Junru J Dehaene Stanislas S Wang Liping L
Current biology : CB 20180607 12
Understanding and producing embedded sequences in language, music, or mathematics, is a central characteristic of our species. These domains are hypothesized to involve a human-specific competence for supra-regular grammars, which can generate embedded sequences that go beyond the regular sequences engendered by finite-state automata. However, is this capacity truly unique to humans? Using a production task, we show that macaque monkeys can be trained to produce time-symmetrical embedded spatial ...[more]