Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 500-511Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.05.001
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- Wellcome Trust [ref/088130/Z/09/Z]
- NIMH [MH107396, MH102840]
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This Opinion article considers the implications for functional anatomy of how we represent temporal structure in our exchanges with the world. It offers a theoretical treatment that tries to make sense of the architectural principles seen in mammalian brains. Specifically, it considers a factorisation between representations of temporal succession and representations of content or, heuristically, a segregation into when and what. This segregation may explain the central role of the hippocampus in neuronal hierarchies while providing a tentative explanation for recent observations of how ordinal sequences are encoded. The implications for neuroanatomy and physiology may have something important to say about how self-organised cell assembly sequences enable the brain to exhibit purposeful behaviour that transcends the here and now.
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