Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
14 Aug 2024
Historique:
received: 30 11 2023
accepted: 09 07 2024
medline: 15 8 2024
pubmed: 15 8 2024
entrez: 14 8 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Humans have the remarkable cognitive capacity to rapidly adapt to changing environments. Central to this capacity is the ability to form high-level, abstract representations that take advantage of regularities in the world to support generalization

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pubmed: 39143207
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07799-x
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07799-x
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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Hristos S Courellis (HS)

Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Hristos.courellis@cshs.org.
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Hristos.courellis@cshs.org.

Juri Minxha (J)

Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Araceli R Cardenas (AR)

Krembil Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery, University Health Network (UHN), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Daniel L Kimmel (DL)

Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Chrystal M Reed (CM)

Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Taufik A Valiante (TA)

Krembil Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery, University Health Network (UHN), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

C Daniel Salzman (CD)

Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Adam N Mamelak (AN)

Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Stefano Fusi (S)

Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Ueli Rutishauser (U)

Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ueli.rutishauser@cshs.org.
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. ueli.rutishauser@cshs.org.
Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ueli.rutishauser@cshs.org.
Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ueli.rutishauser@cshs.org.

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