Foreseeing
the
future
outcomes
is
art
of
decision-making.
Substantial
evidence
shows
that,
during
choice
deliberation,
brain
can
retrieve
prospective
decision
outcomes.
However,
decisions
are
seldom
made
in
a
vacuum.
Context
carries
information
that
radically
affect
choice.
Nevertheless,
most
investigations
retrieval
processes
examined
isolation,
disregarding
context
which
they
occur.
Here,
we
studied
how
shapes
outcome
deliberation.
We
designed
decision-making
task
where
participants
were
presented
with
object-context
pairs
and
led
to
certain
outcome.
show
likely
retrieved
transient
patterns
neural
activity,
as
early
3
s
before
decided.
The
strength
explains
participants'
behavioral
efficiency,
but
only
when
affects
Our
results
suggest
imparts
strong
constraints
on
representations
shaped
Progress in Neurobiology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
240, С. 102653 - 102653
Опубликована: Июль 2, 2024
We
present
here
a
view
of
the
firing
patterns
hippocampal
cells
that
is
contrary,
both
functionally
and
anatomically,
to
conventional
wisdom.
argue
hippocampus
responds
efference
copies
goals
encoded
elsewhere;
it
uses
these
detect
resolve
conflict
or
interference
between
in
general.
While
can
involve
space,
do
not
encode
spatial
(or
other
special
types
of)
memory,
as
such.
also
transverse
circuits
operate
an
essentially
homogeneous
way
along
its
length.
The
apparently
different
functions
parts
(e.g.
memory
retrieval
versus
anxiety)
result
from
(situational/motivational)
inputs
on
which
those
perform
same
fundamental
computational
operations.
On
this
view,
key
role
iterative
adjustment,
via
Papez-like
circuits,
synaptic
weights
cell
assemblies
elsewhere.
Nature,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
632(8026), С. 841 - 849
Опубликована: Авг. 14, 2024
Humans
have
the
remarkable
cognitive
capacity
to
rapidly
adapt
changing
environments.
Central
this
is
ability
form
high-level,
abstract
representations
that
take
advantage
of
regularities
in
world
support
generalization1.
However,
little
known
about
how
these
are
encoded
populations
neurons,
they
emerge
through
learning
and
relate
behaviour2,3.
Here
we
characterized
representational
geometry
neurons
(single
units)
recorded
hippocampus,
amygdala,
medial
frontal
cortex
ventral
temporal
neurosurgical
patients
performing
an
inferential
reasoning
task.
We
found
only
neural
formed
hippocampus
simultaneously
encode
several
task
variables
abstract,
or
disentangled,
format.
This
uniquely
observed
after
learn
perform
inference,
consists
disentangled
directly
observable
discovered
latent
variables.
Learning
inference
by
trial
error
verbal
instructions
led
formation
hippocampal
with
similar
geometric
properties.
The
relation
between
format
behaviour
suggests
geometries
important
for
complex
cognition.
A
which
participants
learned
whose
properties
reflected
structure
task,
indicating
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
1534(1), С. 45 - 68
Опубликована: Март 25, 2024
Abstract
This
paper
considers
neural
representation
through
the
lens
of
active
inference,
a
normative
framework
for
understanding
brain
function.
It
delves
into
how
living
organisms
employ
generative
models
to
minimize
discrepancy
between
predictions
and
observations
(as
scored
with
variational
free
energy).
The
ensuing
analysis
suggests
that
learns
navigate
world
adaptively,
not
(or
solely)
understand
it.
Different
may
possess
an
array
models,
spanning
from
those
support
action‐perception
cycles
underwrite
planning
imagination;
namely,
explicit
entail
variables
predicting
concurrent
sensations,
like
objects,
faces,
or
people—to
action‐oriented
predict
action
outcomes.
then
elucidates
belief
dynamics
might
link
implications
different
types
agent's
cognitive
capabilities
in
relation
its
ecological
niche.
concludes
open
questions
regarding
evolution
development
advanced
abilities—and
gradual
transition
pragmatic
detached
representations.
on
offer
foregrounds
diverse
roles
play
processes
representation.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
Episodic
memory
must
accomplish
two
adversarial
goals:
encoding
and
storing
a
multitude
of
experiences
without
exceeding
the
finite
neuronal
structure
brain,
recalling
memories
in
vivid
detail.
Dimensionality
reduction
expansion
('dimensionality
transformation')
enable
brain
to
meet
these
demands.
Reduction
compresses
sensory
input
into
simplified,
storable
codes,
while
reconstructs
details.
Although
processes
are
essential
memory,
their
neural
mechanisms
for
episodic
remain
unclear.
Drawing
on
recent
insights
from
cognitive
psychology,
systems
neuroscience,
neuroanatomy,
we
propose
accounts
how
dimensionality
transformation
occurs
brain:
structurally
(via
corticohippocampal
pathways)
functionally
(through
oscillations).
By
examining
cross-species
evidence,
highlight
that
may
support
identify
crucial
questions
future
research.
Nature Communications,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
14(1)
Опубликована: Дек. 8, 2023
Abstract
The
human
hippocampal-entorhinal
system
is
known
to
represent
both
spatial
locations
and
abstract
concepts
in
memory
the
form
of
allocentric
cognitive
maps.
Using
fMRI,
we
show
that
parietal
cortex
evokes
complementary
egocentric
representations
conceptual
spaces
during
goal-directed
mental
search,
akin
those
observable
physical
navigation
determine
where
a
goal
located
relative
oneself
(e.g.,
our
left
or
right).
Concurrently,
strength
grid-like
signal,
neural
signature
maps
entorhinal,
prefrontal,
cortices,
modulated
as
function
proximity
space.
These
brain
mechanisms
might
support
flexible
parallel
readout
target
information
stored
memory,
capitalizing
on
reference
frames.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 11, 2023
Abstract
Humans
have
the
remarkable
cognitive
capacity
to
rapidly
adapt
changing
environments.
Central
this
is
ability
form
high-level,
abstract
representations
that
take
advantage
of
regularities
in
world
support
generalization
1
.
However,
little
known
about
how
these
are
encoded
populations
neurons,
they
emerge
through
learning,
and
relate
behavior
2,3
Here
we
characterized
representational
geometry
neurons
(single-units)
recorded
hippocampus,
amygdala,
medial
frontal
cortex,
ventral
temporal
cortex
neurosurgical
patients
who
performing
an
inferential
reasoning
task.
We
find
only
neural
formed
hippocampus
simultaneously
encode
multiple
task
variables
abstract,
or
disentangled,
format.
This
uniquely
observed
after
learn
perform
inference,
consisted
disentangled
directly
observable
discovered
latent
variables.
Interestingly,
learning
inference
by
trial
error
verbal
instructions
led
formation
hippocampal
with
similar
geometric
properties.
The
relation
between
format
suggests
abstract/disentangled
geometries
important
for
complex
cognition.
Nature Communications,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
15(1)
Опубликована: Окт. 16, 2024
The
orbitofrontal
cortex
(OFC)
and
hippocampus
(HC)
both
contribute
to
the
cognitive
maps
that
support
flexible
behavior.
Previously,
we
used
dopamine
neurons
measure
functional
role
of
OFC.
We
recorded
midbrain
as
rats
performed
an
odor-based
choice
task,
in
which
expected
rewards
were
manipulated
across
blocks.
found
ipsilateral
OFC
lesions
degraded
dopaminergic
prediction
errors,
consistent
with
reduced
resolution
task
states.
Here
have
repeated
this
experiment
male
HC
lesions.
results
show
also
shapes
states,
however
unlike
OFC,
provides
information
local
trial,
is
necessary
for
estimating
upper-level
hidden
states
distinguish
contrast
roles
mapping
suggest
access
rich
from
distributed
regions
regarding
environment's
structure,
potentially
enabling
teaching
signal
complex
behaviors.