Evolutionarily conserved neural signatures involved in sequencing predictions and their relevance for language

Yukiko Kikuchi; William Sedley; Timothy D. Griffiths; Christopher I. Petkov

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.05.002

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Evolutionarily conserved neural signatures involved in sequencing predictions and their relevance for language

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Evolutionarily conserved neural signatures involved in sequencing predictions and their relevance for language

Yukiko Kikuchi, William Sedley, Timothy D. Griffiths and Christopher I. Petkov

Current opinion in behavioral sciences, Vol.21, pp.145-153

06/01/2018

DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.05.002

PMCID: PMC6058086

PMID: 30057937

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Abstract

Predicting the occurrence of future events from prior ones is vital for animal perception and cognition. Although how such sequence learning (a form of relational knowledge) relates to particular operations in language remains controversial, recent evidence shows that sequence learning is disrupted in frontal lobe damage associated with aphasia. Also, neural sequencing predictions at different temporal scales resemble those involved in language operations occurring at similar scales. Furthermore, comparative work in humans and monkeys highlights evolutionarily conserved frontal substrates and predictive oscillatory signatures in the temporal lobe processing learned sequences of speech signals. Altogether this evidence supports a relational knowledge hypothesis of language evolution, proposing that language processes in humans are functionally integrated with an ancestral neural system for predictive sequence learning.

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Title: Subtitle: Evolutionarily conserved neural signatures involved in sequencing predictions and their relevance for language
Creators: Yukiko Kikuchi - Newcastle University
William Sedley - Newcastle University
Timothy D. Griffiths - University of Iowa
Christopher I. Petkov - Newcastle University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Current opinion in behavioral sciences, Vol.21, pp.145-153
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.05.002
PMID: 30057937
PMCID: PMC6058086
NLM abbreviation: Curr Opin Behav Sci
ISSN: 2352-1546
eISSN: 2352-1554
Publisher: Elsevier
Number of pages: 9
Grant note: BB/J009849/1 / BBSRC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 102961/Z/13/Z / Wellcome Trust; European Commission NC/K000608/1 / National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
Language: English
Date published: 06/01/2018
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
Record Identifier: 9984360132402771

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