A sequence bottleneck for animal intelligence and language?

A recent suggestion, that non-human animals do not remember stimulus sequences faithfully, has far-reaching implications for animal cognition, neuroscience, and the evolution of language and culture. 

The key observation is that a well established memory trace model, originally intended for single stimuli, can account remarkably well for how non-human animals remember sequences of stimuli.

These memory limits are difficult to reconcile with the common belief that nonhuman animals remember and process sequential information in a manner similar to humans.

If other animals do not represent information about order, these observations challenge pervasive ideas about mental simulations and grammar capacities in animal cognition, model-based learning in neuroscience, and ideas about shared cognitive traits for language and culture between humans and other animals.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00269-9

https://sciencemission.com/A-sequence-bottleneck-for-animal-intelligence-and-language