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SUBMITTER: Schapiro AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4715493 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schapiro Anna C AC Turk-Browne Nicholas B NB Norman Kenneth A KA Botvinick Matthew M MM
Hippocampus 20151013 1
The hippocampus is involved in the learning and representation of temporal statistics, but little is understood about the kinds of statistics it can uncover. Prior studies have tested various forms of structure that can be learned by tracking the strength of transition probabilities between adjacent items in a sequence. We test whether the hippocampus can learn higher-order structure using sequences that have no variance in transition probability and instead exhibit temporal community structure. ...[more]