Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex

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• 作者：Benjamin Wilson¹ ; ² ; William D. Marslen-Wilson³ ; Christopher I. Petkov¹ ; ² ; ^{chris.petkov@ncl.ac.uk}
• 关键词：cognition ; language ; neurobiology ; human ; monkey ; evolution
• 刊名：Trends in Neurosciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：40
• 期：2
• 页码：72-82
• 全文大小：1744 K
• 卷排序：40

文摘

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.