2022
Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants
Yates T, Skalaban L, Ellis C, Bracher A, Baldassano C, Turk-Browne N. Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2022, 119: e2200257119. PMID: 36252007, PMCID: PMC9618143, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2200257119.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly visual regionsEvent segmentationVisual regionsAdults' brain activityContinuous sensory inputFunctional MRI dataEvent cognitionNaturalistic perceptionBehavioral judgmentsInfants' segmentationEvent boundariesNeural patternsBrain activitySensory regionsContinuous experienceSimplified taskInfant brainHuman infantsAssociative regionsSensory inputTemporal integrationAwake infantsBrain regionsAdult experienceTemporal precisionIncreasing stimulus similarity drives nonmonotonic representational change in hippocampus
Wammes J, Norman KA, Turk-Browne N. Increasing stimulus similarity drives nonmonotonic representational change in hippocampus. ELife 2022, 11: e68344. PMID: 34989336, PMCID: PMC8735866, DOI: 10.7554/elife.68344.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRepresentational changeHigh-level visual regionsShaped functionPairs of stimuliHigh-resolution fMRIStimulus similarityVisual regionsHuman participantsHippocampal learningMemoryPlasticity hypothesisCoactivationFMRIHippocampusGyrusStimuliWide enough rangeContradictory resultsParticipantsImage similarityLearningHypothesisU-shapeSimilar imagesEnough range
2009
Neural Evidence of Statistical Learning: Efficient Detection of Visual Regularities Without Awareness
Turk-Browne NB, Scholl BJ, Chun MM, Johnson MK. Neural Evidence of Statistical Learning: Efficient Detection of Visual Regularities Without Awareness. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience 2009, 21: 1934-1945. PMID: 18823241, PMCID: PMC2773825, DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21131.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStatistical learningAbsence of awarenessMedial temporal lobeRobust neural responsesType of learningPerceptual processingNeural evidenceRelational memoryEvidence of learningNeural signaturesAssociative learningVisual regularityVisual regionsGreater activationNeural responsesStatistical regularitiesTemporal lobeUnstructured sequenceStatistical structureLearningLittle exposureUnsupervised learningAwarenessFMRIMemory