Hippocampus and entorhinal cortex form cognitive maps that represent relations among memories within a multidimensional space. While these relational maps have long been proposed to contribute to episodic memory, recent work suggests that they also support concept formation by representing relevant features for discriminating among related concepts. Cognitive maps may be refined by medial prefrontal cortex, which selects dimensions to represent based on their behavioral relevance. Hippocampal pattern completion, which is critical for retrieval of episodic memories, may also contribute to generalization of existing concepts to new exemplars. Navigation within hippocampal cognitive maps, which is guided by grid coding in entorhinal cortex, may contribute to imagination through recombination of event elements or concept features.

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概念形成作为一个计算认知过程。


海马和内嗅皮层形成认知图，代表多维空间内记忆之间的关系。虽然这些关系图长期以来被认为有助于情景记忆，但最近的研究表明，它们还通过表示用于区分相关概念的相关特征来支持概念形成。认知图可以通过内侧前额叶皮层进行细化，该皮层根据行为相关性选择要表示的维度。海马模式补全对于情景记忆的检索至关重要，也可能有助于将现有概念推广到新的范例。海马认知地图内的导航由内嗅皮层的网格编码引导，可能通过事件元素或概念特征的重组有助于想象力。