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The Combinatorial Capacity and Robustness of Hierarchical Concept Coding in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

2026-03-02

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The human brain encodes a virtually infinite repertoire of semantic concepts using a finite number of neurons, a feat that defies the capacity limits of classical attractor networks. While “Concept Cells” in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) exhibit extreme sparsity, the information-theoretic principles governing their collective robustness remain elusive. Here, we present a hierarchical coding framework that resolve...

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10.64898/2026.02.27.708650
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