What representations and computations underpin the contribution of the hippocampus to generalization and inference?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Kumaran, Dharshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational; Generalization; Hippocampus; Inference; Learning; Memory; Transitive

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECURRENCE WITH EPISODIC MEMORY RESULTS IN GENERALIZATION MODEL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX MODEL;

EID: 84864203587     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00157     Document Type: Review

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