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Neural representations of events arise from temporal community structure
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Our experience of the world seems to divide naturally into discrete, temporally extended events, yet the mechanisms underlying the learning and identification of events are poorly understood. Research on event perception has focused on transient elevations in predictive uncertainty or surprise as the primary signal driving event segmentation. We present human behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence in favor of a different account, in which event representations coalesce around clusters or 'communities' of mutually predicting stimuli. Through parsing behavior, fMRI adaptation and multivoxel pattern analysis, we demonstrate the emergence of event representations in a domain containing such community structure, but in which transition probabilities (the basis of uncertainty and surprise) are uniform. We present a computational account of how the relevant representations might arise, proposing a direct connection between event learning and the learning of semantic categories.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schapiro, A. C., Rogers, T. T., Cordova, N. I., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Botvinick, M. M.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schapiro, Anna C
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-02-17
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 486-492
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC3749823
- OpenAlex
- W2016723506
- Cited by
- 556
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Eye Institute (R01EY021755)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- event perception, event segmentation, forecast uncertainty, surprise, neural adaptation, multi-voxel pattern analysis, transition probabilities
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Female, Humans, Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Time Factors, Neural Networks, Computer, Computational Biology, Young Adult
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