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Mental construction of object symbols from meaningless elements by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

When writing an object’s name, humans mentally construct its spelling. This capacity critically depends on use of the dual-structured linguistic system, in which meaningful words are represented by combinations of meaningless letters. Here we search for the evolutionary origin of this capacity in pr...

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Autores principales: Liu, Nanxi, Iijima, Atsuhiko, Iwata, Yutaka, Ohashi, Kento, Fujisawa, Nobuyoshi, Sasaoka, Toshikuni, Hasegawa, Isao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35246592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07563-z