Action at a distance: dependency sensitivity in a New World primate

Sensitivity to dependencies (correspondences between distant items) in sensory stimuli plays a crucial role in human music and language. Here, we show that squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) can detect abstract, non-adjacent dependencies in auditory stimuli. Monkeys discriminated between tone seque...

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Main Authors: Andrea Ravignani, Ruth Sonnweber, Nina Stobbe, W. Tecumseh Fitch
Format: Artigo
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0852
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0852
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