Can squirrel monkeys learn an ABnA grammar? A re-evaluation of Ravignani et al. (2013)

Ravignani et al. (2013) habituated squirrel monkeys to sound sequences conforming to an ABnA grammar (n = 1, 2, 3), then tested them for their reactions to novel grammatical and non-grammatical sequences. Although they conclude that the monkeys “consistently recognized and generalized the sequence A...

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Main Author: Stefano Ghirlanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3806.pdf