{"id":1910,"date":"2025-05-08T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:09:53","slug":"a-possible-explanation-for-the-formation-of-concepts-in-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"A possible explanation for the formation of concepts in the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Luca D. Kolibius, Sheena A. Josselyn, Simon Hanslmayr, <strong>On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus,<\/strong> Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 29, Issue 5, 2025, Pages 421-433 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tics.2025.01.013\">10.1016\/j.tics.2025.01.013<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The hippocampus is essential for episodic memory, yet its coding mechanism remains debated. In humans, two main theories have been proposed: one suggests that concept neurons represent specific elements of an episode, while another posits a conjunctive code, where index neurons code the entire episode. Here, we integrate new findings of index neurons in humans and other animals with the concept-specific memory framework, proposing that concept neurons evolve from index neurons through overlapping memories. This process is supported by engram literature, which posits that neurons are allocated to a memory trace based on excitability and that reactivation induces excitability. By integrating these insights, we connect two historically disparate fields of neuroscience: engram research and human single neuron episodic memory research.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca D. Kolibius, Sheena A. Josselyn, Simon Hanslmayr, On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus, Trends in <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1910\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[389,172,204,166],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psycho-physiological-bases-of-engineering","tag-concept-formation","tag-hippocampus","tag-symbol-emergence","tag-symbol-grounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}