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1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Category boundaries modulate memory in a place-cell-like manner

   Theves, Schäfer, Reisner, de Cothi and Barry · Current Biology · 2024

   The study tests whether shifting category boundaries distorts human memory in the way boundary shifts deform place fields in the hippocampal-entorhinal system, and compares models of the distortion.

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   1. UncheckedAfter category boundaries shifted, participants' memories of category examples became distorted along the changed dimension, like deformed place fields.“Our findings show that after category boundary shifts, participants' memory for category exemplars distorts along the changed dimension, mirroring place field deformations.”
   2. UncheckedA boundary vector cell model of place cell firing fit memory distortions after category boundary shifts better than alternative geometric explanations.“We demonstrate that the boundary vector cell model of place cell firing best accounts for these distortions compared with alternative geometric explanations.”