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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Decomposing dynamical subprocesses for compositional generalization.

Lennart Luettgau, Tore Erdmann, Sebastijan Veselic, Kimberly L Stachenfeld, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Rani Moran, Raymond J Dolan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  3. Building hierarchically nested structure by rapid neural sequences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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7 authors.

Lennart LuettgauImaging Neuroscience, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9370-9606
Tore ErdmannImaging Neuroscience, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom.
Sebastijan VeselicImaging Neuroscience, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom.
Kimberly L StachenfeldGoogle DeepMind, London N1 C4AG, United Kingdom.
Zeb Kurth-NelsonImaging Neuroscience, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0119-1289
Rani Moran *Imaging Neuroscience, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7641-2402
Raymond J Dolan *Imaging Neuroscience, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London WC1B 5EH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9356-761X

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (WT) 098362/Z/12/ZWellcome Trust (WT) 203147/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A striking feature of human cognition is an exceptional ability to rapidly adapt to novel situations. It is proposed this relies on abstracting and generalizing past experiences. While previous research has explored how humans detect and generalize single sequential processes, we have a limited understanding of how humans adapt to more naturalistic scenarios, for example, complex, multisubprocess environments. Here, we propose a candidate computational mechanism that posits compositional generalization of knowledge about subprocess dynamics. In two samples (

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CognitionLearningAdultFemaleGeneralization, PsychologicalHumansMaleYoung Adultabstractioncompositionalitygeneralizationmemorystructure learning

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PMID39514320
PMCPMC11573675

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