Daniel L. Kimmel

The paper develops a factorized model of temporal abstraction to study how abstract knowledge is learned and represented in the brain during a decision task, showing that hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex support this process.

The paper shows that human hippocampal neurons form abstract, disentangled representations during inferential reasoning tasks, which correlate with inference behavior.

This study identifies stable, separable representations of value and choice in OFC during decision-making using novel analysis methods.