ReviewTrends in neurosciences2017
Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex.
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- Common and distinct brain activity associated with risky and ambiguous decision-making.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Pooled it
- Can monkeys and apes use sequence order to resolve perceptual ambiguity? A lack of evidence in two rhesus macaques and one language trained bonobo.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Hemispheric disparity theory: a dual-system framework for consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Abstract rule learning and generalization in human and nonhuman primates.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Addressing the theory crisis in statistical learning research.NPJ science of learning · 2025Review
- Brain areas for reversible symbolic reference, a potential singularity of the human brain.eLife · 2025Article
- Sequence order resolves ambiguity in a nonlinguistic visual categorization task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Investigating the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in language evolution: insights from comparative neuroscience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Altered hierarchical auditory predictive processing after lesions to the orbitofrontal cortex.eLife · 2024Article
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- Lateral prefrontal cortex is a hub for music production from structural rules to movements.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- The evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music: a bottom-up perspective.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Review
- Broca's cerebral asymmetry reflects gestural communication's lateralisation in monkeys (eLife · 2022Article
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- Toward a Computational Neuroethology of Vocal Communication: From Bioacoustics to Neurophysiology, Emerging Tools and Future Directions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Learning boosts the decoding of sound sequences in rat auditory cortex.Current research in neurobiology · 2021Article
- A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals.Topics in cognitive science · 2020Review
- Structured Sequence Learning: Animal Abilities, Cognitive Operations, and Language Evolution.Topics in cognitive science · 2020Review
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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.
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