Tracking the emergence of conceptual knowledge during human decision making
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Concepts lie at the very heart of intelligence, providing organizing principles with which to comprehend the world. Surprisingly little, however, is understood about how we acquire and deploy concepts. Here, we show that a functionally coupled circuit involving the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) underpins the emergence of conceptual knowledge and its effect on choice behavior. Critically, the hippocampus alone supported the efficient transfer of knowledge to a perceptually novel setting. These findings provide compelling evidence that the hippocampus supports conceptual learning through the networking of discrete memories and reveal the nature of its interaction with downstream valuation modules such as the vMPFC. Our study offers neurobiological insights into the remarkable capacity of humans to discover the conceptual structure of related experiences and use this knowledge to solve exacting decision problems.
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The role of the hippocampus in imagination, concept generation, scene construction, mental exploration and goal-directed path planning suggests that it could help to create generative models to underpin more complex inference such as program induction or common-sense world simulation.
“The role of the hippocampus in imagination, concept generation (Kumaran et al., 2009), scene construction (Hassabis and Maguire, 2007), mental exploration and goal-directed path planning (Hopfield, 2009; Ólafsdóttir et al., 2015; Brown et al., 2016) suggests that it could help to create generative models to underpin more complex inference such as program induction (Lake et al., 2015) or common-s”
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- Authors
- Kumaran, D., Summerfield, J. J., Hassabis, D., & Maguire, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Kumaran, Dharshan
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-09
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 889-901
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2791172
- OpenAlex
- W2052710374
- Cited by
- 260
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (084218)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- conceptual knowledge, conceptual learning, hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, decision-making, knowledge transfer, memory networks, valuation, choice behavior
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain Mapping, Choice Behavior, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Discrimination Learning, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Regression Analysis, Prefrontal Cortex, Knowledge, Young Adult
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