Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Dissecting the uncinate fasciculus: disorders, controversies and a hypothesis

RJ Von Der Heide, LM Skipper, E Klobusicky, IR Olson - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The uncinate fasciculus is a bidirectional, long-range white matter tract that connects lateral
orbitofrontal cortex and Brodmann area 10 with the anterior temporal lobes. Although …

Stages of pTDP‐43 pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

J Brettschneider, K Del Tredici, JB Toledo… - Annals of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To see whether the distribution patterns of phosphorylated 43kDa TAR DNA‐
binding protein (pTDP‐43) intraneuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human working memory

AK Barbey, M Koenigs, J Grafman - cortex, 2013 - Elsevier
Although neuroscience has made remarkable progress in understanding the involvement of
prefrontal cortex (PFC) in human memory, the necessity of dorsolateral PFC (dlPFC) for key …

A revised limbic system model for memory, emotion and behaviour

M Catani, F Dell'Acqua, MT De Schotten - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2013 - Elsevier
Emotion, memories and behaviour emerge from the coordinated activities of regions
connected by the limbic system. Here, we propose an update of the limbic model based on …

The language network

AD Friederici, SME Gierhan - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Language processing is supported by different regions located in separate parts of the brain.
A crucial condition for these regions to function as a network is the information transfer …

Evolution, brain, and the nature of language

RC Berwick, AD Friederici, N Chomsky… - Trends in cognitive …, 2013 - cell.com
Language serves as a cornerstone for human cognition, yet much about its evolution
remains puzzling. Recent research on this question parallels Darwin's attempt to explain …

The neuroscience of prejudice and stereoty**

DM Amodio - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
Despite global increases in diversity, social prejudices continue to fuel intergroup conflict,
disparities and discrimination. Moreover, as norms have become more egalitarian …

Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stop**

R Hannah, AR Aron - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Two decades of cross-species neuroscience research on rapid action-stop** in the
laboratory has provided motivation for an underlying prefrontal–basal ganglia circuit. Here …

Short frontal lobe connections of the human brain

M Catani, F Dell'Acqua, F Vergani, F Malik, H Hodge… - cortex, 2012 - Elsevier
Advances in our understanding of sensory-motor integration suggest a unique role of the
frontal lobe circuits in cognition and behaviour. Long-range afferent connections convey …