Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task.

ABSTRACT: Many of the complex behaviours of humans involve the production of nonadjacent dependencies between sequence elements, which in part can be generated through the hierarchical organization of sequences. To understand how these structural properties of human behaviours evolved, we can gain valuable insight from studying the sequential behaviours of nonhuman animals. Among the behaviours of nonhuman apes, tool use has been hypothesised to be a domain of behaviour which likely involves hierarchical organization, and may therefore possess nonadjacent dependencies between sequential actions. However thus far, evidence supporting hierarchical organization of great-ape tool use comes from methodologies which have been criticised in their objectivity. Additionally, the extent to which nonadjacent d

SUBMITTER: Howard-Spink E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11625446 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature