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Navigation as the evolutionary origin for recursive processing in human cognition

2025-05-22

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<p>The aspects of our cognition that can be regarded as specific to humans are also expected to have evolved from precursors shared with other animals. This review aims to propose that the hippocampal mechanism for navigating the world could have served as the scaffolding for the evolution of our domain-general ability for processing recursive structures, a hallmark of human cognition. We show that navigation abil...

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Literature Corpus work: ad1ea456-59d8-5aeb-8875-743992527d3e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xebsy_v1

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