Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians

• Published in: Science advances Vol. 6; no. 26; p. eaaz1002
• Main Authors: Ferrigno, Stephen, Cheyette, Samuel J., Piantadosi, Steven T., Cantlon, Jessica F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Psychological Science; SciAdv r-articles

The ability to represent recursive sequences is early developing and found across cultures, but is not unique to human thought. The question of what computational capacities, if any, differ between humans and nonhuman animals has been at the core of foundational debates in cognitive psychology, anth...