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Finding parallels in fronto-striatal organization.

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (impact factor: 12.59). 06/2012; 16(8):407-8. DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.009 pp.407-8
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ABSTRACT Evidence suggests that lateral frontal cortex is hierarchically organized such that rostral frontal regions support more abstract representations than caudal regions. A recent fMRI study of language processing proposes that striatum may exhibit an analogous organization. We consider this hypothetical correspondence at both the cognitive and anatomical levels.

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Keywords

abstract representations
 
analogous organization
 
hypothetical correspondence
 
language processing
 
lateral frontal cortex
 
recent fMRI study
 

Theresa M Desrochers