Elsevier

Cortex

Volume 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 499-502
Cortex

Special Issue: Position Paper
Dynamic Anticipatory Processing of Hierarchical Sequential Events: a Common Role for Broca's Area and Ventral Premotor Cortex Across Domains?

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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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