Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex

Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex

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. ...

Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans

An evolutionary account of human language as a neurobiological system must distinguish between human-unique neurocognitive processes supporting language and evolutionarily conserved, domain-general processes that can be traced back to our primate ancestors. Neuroimaging studies across species may determine whether candidate neural processes are supported by homologous, functionally conserved br...

The primate frontal cortex: progress report 1975.

Studies of the functions of the cortex anterior to the motor regions of the brain have a venerable history. In non-human primates resections of this frontal eugranular cortex have been known for almost half a century to produce a very specific deficit in tasks characterized by the interposition of a delay between the occasion when a behavioral response is cued and when that response can be carr...

Neuronal Correlates of Metacognition in Primate Frontal Cortex

Humans are metacognitive: they monitor and control their cognition. Our hypothesis was that neuronal correlates of metacognition reside in the same brain areas responsible for cognition, including frontal cortex. Recent work demonstrated that nonhuman primates are capable of metacognition, so we recorded from single neurons in the frontal eye field, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and supplemen...

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