Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

[PDF][PDF] Motor learning

JW Krakauer, AM Hadjiosif, J Xu, AL Wong, AM Haith - Compr Physiol, 2019 - osf.io
Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relatively low-level
mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-level cognitive …

The mystery of language evolution

MD Hauser, C Yang, RC Berwick, I Tattersall… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and
processes that led to change. In the last 40 years, there has been an explosion of research …

Acoustic sequences in non‐human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

A Kershenbaum, DT Blumstein, MA Roch… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

[PDF][PDF] Early development of turn-taking in vocal interaction between mothers and infants

M Gratier, E Devouche, B Guellai, R Infanti… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - library.oapen.org
Infants are known to engage in conversation-like exchanges from the end of the second
month after birth. These 'protoconversations' involve both turn-taking and overlapping …

Computational analysis of behavior

SER Egnor, K Branson - Annual review of neuroscience, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the emerging field of computational behavioral analysis—the use
of modern methods from computer science and engineering to quantitatively measure …

Vocal learning via social reinforcement by infant marmoset monkeys

DY Takahashi, DA Liao, AA Ghazanfar - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
For over half a century now, primate vocalizations have been thought to undergo little or no
experience-dependent acoustic changes during development [1]. If any changes are …

Growth and splitting of neural sequences in songbird vocal development

TS Okubo, EL Mackevicius, HL Payne, GF Lynch… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Neural sequences are a fundamental feature of brain dynamics underlying diverse
behaviours, but the mechanisms by which they develop during learning remain unknown …

Brain signatures of a multiscale process of sequence learning in humans

M Maheu, S Dehaene, F Meyniel - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Extracting the temporal structure of sequences of events is crucial for perception, decision-
making, and language processing. Here, we investigate the mechanisms by which the brain …

Fast and accurate annotation of acoustic signals with deep neural networks

E Steinfath, A Palacios-Muñoz, JR Rottschäfer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Acoustic signals serve communication within and across species throughout the animal
kingdom. Studying the genetics, evolution, and neurobiology of acoustic communication …