A critical aspect of inferential reasoning is the ability to form relationships between items or
events that were not experienced together. This review considers different perspectives on …

Many decisions require flexible reasoning that depends on inference, generalization, and
deliberation. Here, we review emerging findings indicating that the hippocampus, known for …

Some argue that hippocampus supports declarative memory, our capacity to recall facts and
events, whereas others view the hippocampus as part of a system dedicated to calculating …

Traditionally, the hippocampal system has been studied in relation to the goal of retrieving
memories about the past. Recent work in humans and rodents suggests that the …

It is widely accepted that the hippocampus and related brain areas mediate declarative (or
explicit) memory in humans. However, little is known about the fundamental cognitive …

The quintessential memory system in the human brain—the hippocampus and surrounding
medial temporal lobe—is often treated as a module for the formation of conscious, or …

The hippocampus, well known for its role in episodic memory, might also be an important
brain region for extracting structure from our experiences in order to guide future decisions …

The hippocampus has long been of interest to memory researchers, but recent studies have
also implicated the hippocampus in various aspects of future thinking and imagination. Here …

Memory-based cognition depends on both the ability to remember specific details of
individual experiences and the ability to combine information across experiences to …

Memory enables flexible use of past experience to inform new behaviors. Although leading
theories hypothesize that this fundamental flexibility results from the formation of integrated …