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Questioning robustness of a human proto-symbolic capacity: associative symmetry

2026-01-31

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<p>Several proto-symbolic cognitive capacities have been documented in mammals and birds, at least to some degree. But one capacity, routinely reported in humans and called associative symmetry – being able to reverse an association learned in a forward manner, has largely resisted demonstration in non-human animals. It is thus generally considered to represent a building block for human symbolic cognition and mar...

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Literature Corpus work: 2547d959-d6d6-5bc7-8cd2-9ef6a32bc950
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/32ybu_v1

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