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Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures

He Zhang (张贺), Yanfen Zhen (甄艳芬), Shijing Yu (余诗景), Tenghai Long (龙腾海), Bingqian Zhang (张冰倩), Xinjian Jiang (姜新剑), Junru Li (李俊汝), Wen Fang (方文), Mariano Sigman, Stanislas Dehaene and Liping Wang (王立平)
Journal of Neuroscience 2 February 2022, 42 (5) 850-864; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0603-21.2021
He Zhang (张贺)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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Yanfen Zhen (甄艳芬)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Shijing Yu (余诗景)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Tenghai Long (龙腾海)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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Bingqian Zhang (张冰倩)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
3School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Xinjian Jiang (姜新剑)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Junru Li (李俊汝)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Wen Fang (方文)
1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
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Mariano Sigman
4Laboratory Neuroscience, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, C1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
5School of Language and Education, Universidad Nebrija, 28015 Madrid, Spain
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Stanislas Dehaene
6Collège de France, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
7Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris Sud/Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Liping Wang (王立平)
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0603-21.2021
PubMed 
34862186
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History 
  • Received March 22, 2021
  • Revision received November 8, 2021
  • Accepted November 19, 2021
  • First published December 3, 2021.
  • Version of record published February 2, 2022.
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  1. He Zhang (张贺 )1,2,*,
  2. Yanfen Zhen (甄艳芬 )1,*,
  3. Shijing Yu (余诗景 )1,
  4. Tenghai Long (龙腾海 )1,2,
  5. Bingqian Zhang (张冰倩 )1,2,3,
  6. Xinjian Jiang (姜新剑 )1,
  7. Junru Li (李俊汝 )1,
  8. Wen Fang (方文 )1,
  9. Mariano Sigman4,5,
  10. Stanislas Dehaene6,7, and
  11. Liping Wang (王立平 )1
  1. 1Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
  2. 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
  3. 3School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, People's Republic of China
  4. 4Laboratory Neuroscience, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, C1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  5. 5School of Language and Education, Universidad Nebrija, 28015 Madrid, Spain
  6. 6Collège de France, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
  7. 7Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris Sud/Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: X.J. and L.W. designed research; H.Z., Y.Z., S.Y., T.L., B.Z., and X.J. performed research; H.Z., Y.Z., S.Y., T.L., J.L., W.F., and L.W. analyzed data; H.Z., Y.Z., M.S., S.D., and L.W. wrote the paper.

  2. ↵*H.Z. and Y.Z. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

    • Received March 22, 2021.
    • Revision received November 8, 2021.
    • Accepted November 19, 2021.
  • This work was supported by the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (Grant QYZDY-SSW-SMC001), the Strategic Priority Research Program (Grant XDB32070200), the Pioneer Hundreds of Talents Program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (Grant 2018SHZDZX05), and the National Science Foundation of China (Grant 31871132) to L.W. We thank Danni Chen and Yiang Xu for experimental assistants. We also thank Guofang Ren and Yafang Xie from Far East Horizon Education Group for help in the data collection of children participants.

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to Liping Wang at liping.wang{at}ion.ac.cn

Funding

  • the Key Research Program of Frontiers Sciences

    QYZDY-SSW-SMC001
  • the Strategic Priority Research Program

    XDB32070200
  • the Pioneer Hundreds of Talents Program from the Chinese Academy of Science

  • the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project

    2018SHZDZX05
  • the National Science Foundation of China

    31871132

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He Zhang (张贺), Yanfen Zhen (甄艳芬), Shijing Yu (余诗景), Tenghai Long (龙腾海), Bingqian Zhang (张冰倩), Xinjian Jiang (姜新剑), Junru Li (李俊汝), Wen Fang (方文), Mariano Sigman, Stanislas Dehaene, Liping Wang (王立平)
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