Journal article
Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex
Trends in neurosciences (Regular ed.), Vol.40(2), pp.72-82
02/01/2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.004
PMCID: PMC5359391
PMID: 28063612
Abstract
An important aspect of animal perception and cognition is learning to recognize relationships between environmental events that predict others in time, a form of relational knowledge that can be assessed using sequence-learning paradigms. Humans are exquisitely sensitive to sequencing relationships, and their combinatorial capacities, most saliently in the domain of language, are unparalleled. Recent comparative research in human and nonhuman primates has obtained behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for evolutionarily conserved substrates involved in sequence processing. The findings carry implications for the origins of domain-general capacities underlying core language functions in humans. Here, we synthesize this research into a 'ventrodorsal gradient' model, where frontal cortex engagement along this axis depends on sequencing complexity, mapping onto the sequencing capacities of different species.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex
- Creators
- Benjamin Wilson - Newcastle UniversityWilliam D. Marslen-Wilson - University of CambridgeChristopher I. Petkov - Newcastle University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Trends in neurosciences (Regular ed.), Vol.40(2), pp.72-82
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.004
- PMID
- 28063612
- PMCID
- PMC5359391
- NLM abbreviation
- Trends Neurosci
- ISSN
- 0166-2236
- eISSN
- 1878-108X
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- WT102961MA / Wellcome Trust Investigator Award; Wellcome Trust WT110198/Z/15/Z / Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship 230570 / European Research Council; European Research Council (ERC); European Commission MC_U105580454 / MRC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Medical Research Council UK (MRC) BB/J009849/1 / Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC U.K; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) MC_U105580454 / Medical Research Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Medical Research Council UK (MRC); European Commission BB/J009849/1 / BBSRC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984360007402771
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