Hippocampus Learns the Names of Objects by Predicting the Word-Object Associations and Testing These (IMAGE)
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Made-up words and objects were shown to participants inside the MRI scanner. Because 3 unknown words and objects were presented simultaneously, it was never immediately obvious which word corresponded to which object. The correspondences could only be learned by keeping track of associations across several minutes. A brain region known as the hippocampus was found to learn the names of objects by predicting the word-object associations and testing these predictions over time.
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Dr Sam Berens
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