Kot: A cat's brain is more similar to a man's brain than that of a dog

Evidence: 51 • authority: 80

Evidence: 51 • authority: 92

Transformed reactivation of latent working memory enables hierarchical language processing. Abstract Human language comprehension requires tracking words across intervening material to construct grammatical structures, yet two fundamental questions remain unresolved: whether maintenance of earlier words relies on sustained neural activity or activity-silent working memory mechanisms, and whether memory retrieval during integration engages domain-general or language-selective networks. Using magnetoencephalography with time-resolved decoding, we tracked main-clause subjects as participants heard sentences with embedded clauses (e.g., "The dog, who chases the cat, jumps over the mud."). The s…

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