Chris M. Bird

Hippocampus responds to mismatches with predictions based on episodic memories but not generalised knowledge

This study shows the human hippocampus uses episodic memories, not generalised knowledge, to detect prediction errors during learning.

Hippocampal and medial prefrontal cortices encode structural task representations following progressive and interleaved training schedules

The paper investigates how progressive and interleaved training schedules affect memory generalization, finding that encoding-based mechanisms are used in hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex for relational coding.

The importance of semantic network brain regions in integrating prior knowledge with an ongoing dialogue

The paper shows that prior narrative knowledge enhances memory and neural similarity during dialogues by strengthening brain regions involved in semantic processing.

The processing of color preference in the brain

This study uses fMRI to show that color preference modulates brain activity in the posterior midline cortex, even when preferences are task-irrelevant, suggesting automatic encoding of subjective value for basic visual features.