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Date created: 2020-09-12 10:04 PM | Last Updated: 2023-11-02 06:04 PM

Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/XB7SQ

Category: Project

Description: The brain supports adaptive behavior by generating predictions, learning from errors, and updating memories to incorporate new information. Prediction error, or surprise, triggers learning when reality contradicts expectations. Prior studies have shown that the hippocampus signals prediction errors, but have never linked this neural signal to memory updating. Here, we uncover new mechanisms that reveal this missing link. In a human fMRI study, we elicited mnemonic prediction errors by interrupting familiar narrative videos immediately before the expected endings. We found that prediction error reversed the relationship between univariate hippocampal activation and memory: greater hippocampal activation predicted memory preservation after expected endings, but memory updating after surprising endings. In contrast to previous studies, we showed that univariate activation was insufficient for understanding hippocampal prediction error signals. We explained this surprising finding by tracking both the evolution of hippocampal activation patterns and connectivity between the hippocampus and neuromodulatory regions. We found that hippocampal activation patterns stabilized as each narrative episode unfolded, consistent with sustaining episodic representations. Prediction errors disrupted these sustained representations, and the degree of disruption predicted memory updating. The relationship between hippocampal activation and subsequent memory depended on concurrent basal forebrain activation, providing new evidence about how cholinergic modulation may regulate attention and memory. We conclude that prediction errors create conditions that favor memory updating, prompting the hippocampus to abandon ongoing predictions and make memories malleable.

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Welcome! This project folder contains the preprint manuscript, supplementary materials, stimulus set, and all code necessary to reproduce results and figures in the preprint. If you have questions, please contact Allie Sinclair at ahs50@duke.edu

The paper that accompanies these data is now published at PNAS.

Sinclair, A.H., Manalili, G.M., Brunec, I.K., Adcock, R.A., & Barense, M.D. (202…

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