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Does everybody do it? Hierarchically organized sequential activity in robots, birds and monkeys

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Commentary onGreenfieldPatricia M. (1991) Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior. BBS 14:531–595.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Denise Piñon and
Patricia M. Greenfield
Denise Piñon
Affiliation:
denise@cognet.ucla.edu; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024–1563
Patricia M. Greenfield
Affiliation:
ibenaae@mvs.oac.ucla.edu; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024–1563
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1994, pp. 361 - 365
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