Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans.

ABSTRACT: An evolutionary account of human language as a neurobiological system must distinguish between human-unique neurocognitive processes supporting language and evolutionarily conserved, domain-general processes that can be traced back to our primate ancestors. Neuroimaging studies across species may determine whether candidate neural processes are supported by homologous, functionally conserved brain areas or by different neurobiological substrates. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging in Rhesus macaques and humans to examine the brain regions involved in processing the ordering relationships between auditory nonsense words in rule-based sequences. We find that key regions in the human ventral frontal and opercular cortex have functional counterparts in the monkey brain. These re

SUBMITTER: Wilson B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4660034 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature