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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

   People learned two social hierarchies; brain activity in hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and prefrontal regions reflected a combined 2D map and supported new inferences via 'hub' individuals.

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   1. UncheckedBrain activity in memory and value regions tracked the distance between people in a mentally built 2D social map, even though only one dimension mattered for the task.“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, behaviour and brain activity in two regions tracked the straight-line distance to a 'hub' person whose memory was reinstated in the hippocampus.“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory

   Rolls · Progress in Neurobiology · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The same orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate regions also connect in humans to the septal and basal forebrain cholinergic nuclei, thereby helping to consolidate memory, and helping to account for why damage to the vMPFC impairs memory.”