Arbejdshukommelse (WM) er vigtig for læring, sprogforståelse og planlægning, men der er begrænset forskning i WM-færdigheder på tværs af arter. Selvom nogle eksisterende studier kan give indsigt i ikke-menneskelige dyrs WM-kapaciteter, er mange spørgsmål stadig ubesvarede.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Evolution of Wokring Memory
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Working memory (WM) is fundamental to many aspects of human life, including learning, speech and text comprehension, prospection and future planning, and explicit “system 2” forms of reasoning, as well as overlapping heavily with fluid general intelligence. WM has been intensively studied for many decades, and there is a growing consensus about its nature, its components, and its signature limits. Remarkably, given its central importance in human life, there has been very little comparative investigation of WM abilities across species. Consequently, much remains unknown about the evolution of this important human capacity. Some questions can be tentatively answered from the existing comparative literature. Even studies that were not intended to do so can nonetheless shed light on the WM capacities of nonhuman animals. However, many questions remain.