Stress drives the hippocampus to prioritize statistical prediction over episodic encoding
Irene Zhou, Zihan Bai, Yuye Huang, Elaine G. Wijaya, Brynn E. Sherman, Nicholas B. Turk‐Browne, Elizabeth V. Goldfarb
This study shows acute stress shifts hippocampal processing from episodic encoding to statistical learning, enhancing predictive feature representation and suppressing pattern separation.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Jul 9, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience