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Structured event complexes are the primary representation in the human prefrontal cortex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

Jordan Grafman Open the ORCID record for Jordan Grafman [Opens in a new window]
Jordan Grafman*
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Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Think and Speak Lab, Chicago, IL60011-5146 Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Alzheimer's Center and Cognitive Neurology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL60611jgrafman@northwestern.edu Department of Psychology, Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences, Evanston, IL60208.
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Abstract

Instead of endorsing an all-encompassing view about the influence of abstractions in predictive processing, I suggest that most deliberative thought including complex abstractions, agent actions, and/or perceived environmental sequences are stored in the human prefrontal cortex in the form of structured event complexes.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e135
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