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Grammars of action in human behavior and evolution

2018-03-13

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Distinctive human behaviors from tool-making to language are thought to rely on a uniquely evolved capacity for hierarchical action sequencing. Unfortunately, testing of this idea has been hampered by a lack of objective, generalizable methods for measuring the structural complexity of real-world behaviors. Here we present a data-driven approach for quantifying hierarchical structure by extracting action grammars...

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Literature Corpus work: b12a4e9a-7cea-5149-9ae8-13c29a023b46
DOI: 10.1101/281543

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