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Prediction errors disrupt hippocampal representations and update episodic memories.

Paper summary

Examines how surprising changes to learned events alter hippocampal representations and later episodic memory. The study connects prediction mismatch with abandoning prior representations and incorporating new information.

Relevance to the project

A mechanism lead for history-based comparison and memory updating. The origin of predictions and comparison signals remains a separate design question.

Biological memoryMemoryLearning and adaptation

Read with the 2026 correction notice; avoid carrying forward uncorrected numerical values.

Source record

Reference ID
pmc-pmc8713973
Archived version
Author-hosted 2021 paper; read with separately preserved 2026 correction
Summary provenance
reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc8713973/metadata.json · summary
Review status
initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
Reading scope
Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.