Auditory and Visual Sequence Learning in Humans and Monkeys using an Artificial Grammar Learning Paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Language flexibly supports the human ability to communicate using different sensory modalities, such as writing and reading in the visual modality and speaking and listening in the auditory domain. Although it has been argued that nonhuman primate communication abilities are inherently multisensory, direct behavioural comparisons between human and nonhuman primates are scant. Artificial grammar learning (AGL) tasks and statistical learning experiments can be used to emulate ordering relationships between words in a sentence. However, previous comparative work using such paradigms has primarily investigated sequence learning within a single sensory modality. We used an AGL paradigm to evaluate how humans and macaque monkeys learn and respond to identically structured sequences of either aud

SUBMITTER: Milne AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6278909 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature