Monkeys at the Movies (pdf scientific study)

“…it seems that what makes people different is our ability to follow a narrative. Whereas monkeys look and react to scenes quickly, people fixate on one actor and integrate complex events over time…remembering our past is a kind of ‘mental time travel’, implying that we do not passively store and recall concrete chains of events, but actively reconstruct them through some process of generalization and reassembly”