ReviewTopics in cognitive science2020
Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation.
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- The neurobiology of human sequential signal prediction: Insights from language, music, and mathematics.Neuroscience research · 2026Review
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- The effect of background music on the recognition memory of spoken sentences.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Acquisition and Utilization of Recursive Rules in Motor Sequence Generation.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- What neural oscillations can and cannot do for syntactic structure building.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Exploring the neurobiology of Merge at a basic level: insights from a novel artificial grammar paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Reply to comment on "Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans".Science advances · 2021Article
- On reappearance and complexity in musical calling.PloS one · 2021Article
- Recursive music elucidates neural mechanisms supporting the generation and detection of melodic hierarchies.Brain structure & function · 2020Article
- Hierarchical Structure in Sequence Processing: How to Measure It and Determine Its Neural Implementation.Topics in cognitive science · 2020Review
- Using Neural Circuit Interrogation in Rodents to Unravel Human Speech Decoding.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2020Review
- Recursion in action: An fMRI study on the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
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Abstract
In many domains of human cognition, hierarchically structured representations are thought to play a key role. In this paper, we start with some foundational definitions of key phenomena like "sequence" and "hierarchy," and then outline potential signatures of hierarchical structure that can be observed in behavioral and neuroimaging data. Appropriate behavioral methods include classic ones from psycholinguistics along with some from the more recent artificial grammar learning and sentence processing literature. We then turn to neuroimaging evidence for hierarchical structure with a focus on the functional MRI literature. We conclude that, although a broad consensus exists about a role for a neural circuit incorporating the inferior frontal gyrus, the superior temporal sulcus, and the arcuate fasciculus, considerable uncertainty remains about the precise computational function(s) of this circuitry. An explicit theoretical framework, combined with an empirical approach focusing on distinguishing between plausible alternative hypotheses, will be necessary for further progress.
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