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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
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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