Learning of Chunking Sequences in Cognition and Behavior.

We often learn and recall long sequences in smaller segments, such as a phone number 858 534 22 30 memorized as four segments. Behavioral experiments suggest that humans and some animals employ this strategy of breaking down cognitive or behavioral sequences into chunks in a wide variety of tasks, b...

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Main Authors: Jordi Fonollosa, Emre Neftci, Mikhail Rabinovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4652905?pdf=render