Topic: neuronal state space

Serial thinking is a cognitive function underpinning almost any of our daily actions. Our brain continuously encodes and learns ordered sequences that we can remember, process and replay as in motor planning and language production. Despite the pervasiveness of such computation, a full understanding of the neuronal machinery underpinning this function is still lacking. Psychophysical evidence suggests that the ordering of learned information can be solved resorting to a linear mental workspace, namely the mental line, in which the relevant items are mapped according to their arbitrary assigned