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Dynamic updating of hippocampal object representations reflects new conceptual knowledge

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Mack, Michael L., Love, Bradley C., Preston, Alison R.·2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: A cosmopolitan couple looking for a home may focus on trendy features. However, with news of a baby on the way, they must quickly learn which features make for a child-friendly home to conceptually reorganize their set of potential homes. We investigate how conceptual knowledge is updated in the brain when goals change and attention shifts to new information. By combining functional MRI with computational modeling, we find that object representations in the human hippocampus are dynamically updated with concept-relevant information during learning. We also demonstrate that when concept updating is most consequential, the hippocampus is functionally coupled with neocortex. Our findings suggest that the brain reorganizes when concepts change and provide support for a neurocomputational theory of concept formation.

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Authors
Mack, M. L., Love, B. C., & Preston, A. R.
Affiliations
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • The Alan Turing Institute (GB)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Corresponding author
Mack, Michael L.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2016-11
Volume
113
Issue
46
Pages
13203-13208
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2546497559
Cited by
223
References
79
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 1
FWCI
10.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (F32-MH100904, R01-MH100121)
  • National Science Foundation (CAREER Award 1056019)
  • Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2014-075)
  • Wellcome Trust (WT106931MA)
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1P01HD080679)
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
hippocampus, object representation, conceptual knowledge, goal-directed learning, feature-based attention, representational similarity, computational models of learning, classification learning
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Brain, Concept Formation, Female, Humans, Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Models, Neurological, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Young Adult

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