Transferring structural knowledge across cognitive maps in humans and models

Shirley Mark; Rani Moran; Thomas Parr; Steve W. Kennerley; Timothy E. J. Behrens

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18254-6

Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Transferring structural knowledge across cognitive maps in humans and models

Shirley Mark,
Rani Moran,
Thomas Parr,
Steve W. Kennerley,
Timothy E. J. Behrens

Affiliations

Shirley Mark: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Rani Moran: Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research
Thomas Parr: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Steve W. Kennerley: Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience, University College London
Timothy E. J. Behrens: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18254-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Humans are able to exploit patterns or schemas when performing new tasks, but the mechanism for this ability is still unknown. Using graph-learning tasks, we show that humans are able to transfer abstract structural knowledge and suggest a computational mechanism by which such transfer can occur.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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