Friston, K;
Buzsaki, G;
(2016)
The Functional Anatomy of Time: What and When in the Brain.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
, 20
(7)
pp. 500-511.
10.1016/j.tics.2016.05.001.
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Abstract
This Opinion article considers the implications for functional anatomy of how we represent temporal structure in our exchanges with the world. It offers a theoretical treatment that tries to make sense of the architectural principles seen in mammalian brains. Specifically, it considers a factorisation between representations of temporal succession and representations of content or, heuristically, a segregation into when and what. This segregation may explain the central role of the hippocampus in neuronal hierarchies while providing a tentative explanation for recent observations of how ordinal sequences are encoded. The implications for neuroanatomy and physiology may have something important to say about how self-organised cell assembly sequences enable the brain to exhibit purposeful behaviour that transcends the here and now.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Functional Anatomy of Time: What and When in the Brain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2016.05.001 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.05.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Hippocampus, ordinal, spatiotemporal, Bayesian inference, sequences |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences, Psychology, Experimental, Neurosciences & Neurology, Psychology, CELL ASSEMBLY SEQUENCES, HIPPOCAMPAL SEQUENCES, THETA-OSCILLATIONS, BAYESIAN-INFERENCE, PARIETAL CORTEX, CARVING NATURE, MEMORY, SYSTEM, PLACE, SPACE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048631 |
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