Dynamic anticipatory processing of hierarchical sequential events: a common role for Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex across domains?
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Published on: August 1, 2018
Christian J Fiebach1, Ricarda I Schubotz
1Neurocognition and Cognitive Neurology Group, Psychological Institute and Department of Neurology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany. christian@fiebach.org
Abstract:
This paper proposes a domain-general model for the functional contribution of ventral premotor cortex (PMv) and adjacent Broca's area to perceptual, cognitive, and motor processing. We propose to understand this frontal region as a highly flexible sequence processor, with the PMv mapping sequential events onto stored structural templates and Broca's Area involved in more complex, hierarchical or hypersequential processing. This proposal is supported by reference to previous functional neuroimaging studies investigating abstract sequence processing and syntactic processing.
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