“A STUDY ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEMORY AND THEIR BEST UTILIZATION IN THE SYSTEM”

Memory function involves both the ability to remember details of individual experiences and the ability to link information access events to create new knowledge. Prior research has identified the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and the hippocampus as important for integrating across events in the service of generalization in episodic memory. The degree to which these memory integration mechanisms contribute to other forms of generalization, such as concept learning, is unclear. The present study used a concept-learning task in humans (both sexes) coupled with model-based FMRI to test whether VMPFC and hippocampus contribute to concept across events in the service of generalization in episodic memory. The degree to which these memory integration mechanisms contribute to other forms of generalization, such as concept learning, is unclear. The present study used a concept-learning task in humans (both sexes) coupled with model-based FMRI to test whether VMPFC and hippocampus contribute to concept generalization, and whether they do so by maintaining specific category exemplars or abstract category representations. Two formal categorization models were fit to individual