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Distinct roles of hippocampus and neocortex in symbolic compositional generalization

2025-08-20

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Humans can combine symbols to generate new meanings. Here, we studied the regional neural mechanisms that might make this possible. We asked participants to combine two discrete, symbolic features (a shape and a colour) to make a novel spatial inference. BOLD data suggested that the hippocampus encoded elementary visual attributes in a high-dimensional, parallel format that permitted flexible individuation. In ven...

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Literature Corpus work: 2c357996-545f-5a70-8d7c-8e613f9c5d1f
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.19.671090

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