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Flexible neural representations of abstract structural knowledge in the human entorhinal cortex.
Mark S; Schwartenbeck P; Hahamy A; Samborska V; Baram AB; Behrens TE
Humans are great at figuring out if past knowledge helps with new tasks even when things look different. Scientists think a part of the brain called the entorhinal cortex helps with this. They used fMRI to show it works for tasks with the same hidden rules but not for tasks grouped together differently.
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