Associative learning accounts for recursive-structure generation in crows

authors

• Rey Arnaud
• Fagot Joël

keywords

• Recursive structures
• Center-embeddings
• Associative learning
• Primates
• Crows

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abstract

Recursive sequence generation (i.e., the ability to transfer recursive patterns to novel items) was recently reported in crows (Liao et al., 2022, Science Advances, 8[44], eabq3356). Here, we argue that although the reported data are certainly compatible with the recursion hypothesis, they can also be explained by other, much simpler mechanisms of associative learning.

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