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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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Autores principales: Ravignani, Andrea, Sonnweber, Ruth-Sophie, Stobbe, Nina, Fitch, W. Tecumseh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24227047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0852