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ArticleNature2026

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces.

Sina Tafazoli, Flora M Bouchacourt, Adel Ardalan, Nikola T Markov, Motoaki Uchimura, Marcelo G Mattar, Nathaniel D Daw, Timothy J Buschman

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sina TafazoliPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. tafazoli@princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1926-0227
Flora M BouchacourtPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Adel ArdalanPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5061-7832
Nikola T MarkovPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1417-1161
Motoaki UchimuraPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Marcelo G MattarDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3303-2490
Nathaniel D DawPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5029-1430
Timothy J BuschmanPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. tbuschma@princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1298-2761

Funding

NRSA Training Grant in Quantitative NeuroscienceT32MH065214 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Nathaniel Douglass Daw, KENNETH A NORMAN · 2002 to 2026
$7.9M
Neural Mechanisms of Rule-Based BehaviorR01MH129492 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Timothy J. Buschman · 2022 to 2026
$2.4M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH129492NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH065214
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognition is highly flexible-we perform many different tasks

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BrainCognitionMacaca mulattaTask Performance and AnalysisAnimalsLearningMaleModels, NeurologicalNeural Networks, ComputerNeuronsPsychomotor Performance

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PMID41299181
PMCPMC12872450

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