The Neural Representation of Sequences: From Transition Probabilities to Algebraic Patterns and Linguistic Trees

Neuron

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-19

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b   Meyniel, Florent ^b   Wacongne, Catherine ^a,b   Wang, Liping ^c,d   Pallier, Christophe ^b  

^a Paris Sciences et Lettres   (France)

^b NeuroSpin center ^*  (France)

^c East China Normal University   (China)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84943271452     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.019     Document Type: Review

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