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Parallel cognitive maps for short-term statistical and long-term semantic relationships in the hippocampal formation

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Hebart,  Martin N.       
Max Planck Research Group Vision and Computational Cognition, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Doeller,  Christian F.       
Department Psychology (Doeller), MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Garvert,  Mona       
Department Psychology (Doeller), MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Zheng, X. Y., Hebart, M. N., Dolan, R. J., Doeller, C. F., Cools, R., & Garvert, M. (2022). Parallel cognitive maps for short-term statistical and long-term semantic relationships in the hippocampal formation. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2022.08.29.505742.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-2D08-B
Abstract
The hippocampal-entorhinal system uses cognitive maps to represent spatial knowledge and other types of relational information, such as the transition probabilities between objects. However, objects can often be characterized in terms of different types of relations simultaneously, e.g. semantic similarities learned over the course of a lifetime as well as transitions experienced over a brief timeframe in an experimental setting. Here we ask how the hippocampal formation handles the embedding of stimuli in multiple relational structures that differ vastly in terms of their mode and timescale of acquisition: Does it integrate the different stimulus dimensions into one conjunctive map, or is each dimension represented in a parallel map? To this end, we reanalyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from Garvert et al. (2017) that had previously revealed an entorhinal map which coded for newly learnt statistical regularities. We used a triplet odd-one-out task to construct a semantic distance matrix for presented items and applied fMRI adaptation analysis to show that the degree of similarity of representations in bilateral hippocampus decreases as a function of semantic distance between presented objects. Importantly, while both maps localize to the hippocampal formation, this semantic map is anatomically distinct from the originally described entorhinal map. This finding supports the idea that the hippocampal-entorhinal system forms parallel cognitive maps reflecting the embedding of objects in diverse relational structures.