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ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience2025

Differentiation of Related Events in Hippocampus Supports Memory Reinstatement in Development.

Nicole L Varga, Hannah E Roome, Robert J Molitor, Lucia Martinez, Elizabeth M Hipskind, Michael L Mack, Alison R Preston, Margaret L Schlichting

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Article in Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  4. Neural Representations of Reward-Related Memories Shift across Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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8 authors.

Nicole L VargaUniversity of Texas at Austin.
Hannah E RoomeNewcastle University.
Robert J MolitorUniversity of Texas at Austin.
Lucia MartinezUniversity of Texas at Austin.
Elizabeth M HipskindBaylor College of Medicine, Houston.ORCID 0000-0002-7859-529X
Michael L MackUniversity of Toronto.
Alison R PrestonUniversity of Texas at Austin.
Margaret L SchlichtingUniversity of Toronto.ORCID 0000-0002-5433-8870

Funding

Hippocampal and prefrontal contributions to memory integrationR01MH100121 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Alison R Preston · 2013 to 2026
$7.3M
Influence of brain maturation on memory representation during developmentF32HD095586 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI VARGA, NICOLE LEIGH · 2018 to 2021
$228k
Canada Foundation for Innovation JELFNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development F32 grant 095586Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery grant RGPIN-04933-2018NICHD NIH HHS F32 HD095586NIMH NIH HHS R01 grant 100121NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH100121Ontario Research Fund 36876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adults are capable of either differentiating or integrating similar events in memory based on which representations are optimal for a given situation. Yet how children represent related memories remains unknown. Here, children (7-10 years old) and adults formed memories for separate yet overlapping events. We then measured how successfully remembered events were represented and reinstated using fMRI. We found that children formed differentiated representations in the hippocampus-such that related events were stored as less similar to one another compared with unrelated events. Conversely, adults formed integrated representations, wherein related events were stored as more similar, including in medial prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, hippocampal differentiation among children and medial prefrontal cortex integration among adults tracked neocortical reinstatement of the specific features associated with the individual events. Together, these findings reveal that the same memory behaviors are supported by different underlying representations across development. Specifically, whereas differentiation underlies memory organization and retrieval in childhood, integration exhibits a protracted developmental trajectory.

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Child DevelopmentHippocampusMemoryAdultBrain MappingChildFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePrefrontal CortexYoung Adult

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PMID39792655
PMCPMC11925597

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