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NEURON
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 2-19Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.019
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- European Commission [604102]
- program 'Investissements d'Avenir' [ANR-10-IAIHU-06]
- French National Agengy for Research [ANR 2010 BLANC 1403 01]
- INSERM
- CEA
- College de France
- Bettencourt-Schueller foundation
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A sequence of images, sounds, or words can be stored at several levels of detail, from specific items and their timing to abstract structure. We propose a taxonomy of five distinct cerebral mechanisms for sequence coding: transitions and timing knowledge, chunking, ordinal knowledge, algebraic patterns, and nested tree structures. In each case, we review the available experimental paradigms and list the behavioral and neural signatures of the systems involved. Tree structures require a specific recursive neural code, as yet unidentified by electrophysiology, possibly unique to humans, and which may explain the singularity of human language and cognition.
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