Replay-triggered brain-wide activation in humans

Q Huang, Z Xiao, Q Yu, Y Luo, J Xu, Y Qu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The consolidation of discrete experiences into a coherent narrative shapes the cognitive
map, providing structured mental representations of our experiences. In this process, past …

Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of an orthogonalized state machine

W Sun, J Winnubst, M Natrajan, C Lai, K Kajikawa… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cognitive maps confer animals with flexible intelligence by representing spatial, temporal,
and abstract relationships that can be used to shape thought, planning, and behavior …

Impoverished details with preserved gist in remote and recent spatial memory following hippocampal and fornix lesions

A Li, X Lei, K Herdman, S Waidergoren, A Gilboa… - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Cognitive Map Theory predicts that the hippocampus (HPC) plays a
specialized, time-invariant role in supporting allocentric spatial memory, while Standard …

Schemas, reinforcement learning, and the medial prefrontal cortex

O Bein, Y Niv - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
Schemas are rich and complex knowledge structures about the typical unfolding of events in
a context. For example, a schema of a lovely dinner at a restaurant. Schemas are central in …

Flexible hippocampal representation of abstract boundaries supports memory-guided choice

M Esposito, L Abdul, A Ghouse… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cognitive maps in the hippocampus encode the relative locations of spatial cues in an
environment and dynamically adapt their representation when boundaries geometrically …