Mental compression of spatial sequences in human working memory using numerical and geometrical primitives

Al Roumi, F; Marti, S; Wang, LP; Amalric, M; Dehaene, S

Al Roumi, F; Dehaene, S (corresponding author), Univ Paris Saclay, NeuroSpin Ctr, Cognit Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM,CEA, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.; Dehaene, S (corresponding author), Univ Paris Sci Lettres PSL, Coll France, 11 Pl Marcelin Berthelot, F-75005 Paris, France.

NEURON, 2021; 109 (16): 2627

Abstract

How does the human brain store sequences of spatial locations? We propose that each sequence is internally compressed using an abstract, language-like......

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