A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

Similarity and categorization are fundamental processes in human cognition that help
complex organisms make sense of the cacophony of information in their environment. These …

Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations that they can
use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the …

A complete neuroscience requires multilevel theories that address phenomena ranging from
higher-level cognitive behaviors to activities within a cell. We propose an extension to the …

Over the past decade, episodic memory has been reconceptualised as future-oriented. In
2007, Schacter and I proposed the 'constructive episodic simulation hypothesis' to account …

What are the principles that govern whether neural representations move apart
(differentiate) or together (integrate) as a function of learning? According to supervised …

Prevailing theories of hippocampal function argue that memories are rapidly encoded by
non-overlapping memory traces. Concurrently, the hippocampus has been argued to …

Abstract Concepts organize our experiences and allow for meaningful inferences in novel
situations. Acquiring new concepts requires extracting regularities across multiple learning …

Compact representations of the environment allow humans to behave efficiently in a
complex world. Reinforcement learning models capture many behavioral and neural effects …

Pattern separation, or the process by which highly similar stimuli or experiences in memory
are represented by non-overlapping neural ensembles, has typically been ascribed to …