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Humans parsimoniously represent auditory sequences by pruning and completing the underlying network structure

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Successive auditory inputs are rarely independent, their relationships ranging from local transitions between elements to hierarchical and nested representations. In many situations, humans retrieve these dependencies even from limited datasets. However, this learning at multiple scale levels is poorly understood. Here, we used the formalism proposed by network science to study the representation of local and higher-order structures and their interaction in auditory sequences. We show that human adults exhibited biases in their perception of local transitions between elements, which made them sensitive to high-order network structures such as communities. This behavior is consistent with the creation of a parsimonious simplified model from the evidence they receive, achieved by pruning and completing relationships between network elements. This observation suggests that the brain does not rely on exact memories but on a parsimonious representation of the world. Moreover, this bias can be analytically modeled by a memory/efficiency trade-off. This model correctly accounts for previous findings, including local transition probabilities as well as high-order network structures, unifying sequence learning across scales. We finally propose putative brain implementations of such bias.
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hal-04290763 , version 1 (17-11-2023)

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Lucas Benjamin, Ana Fló, Fosca Al Roumi, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz. Humans parsimoniously represent auditory sequences by pruning and completing the underlying network structure. eLife, 2023, 12, pp.e86430. ⟨10.7554/eLife.86430⟩. ⟨hal-04290763⟩
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