One of the most important mechanisms underlying the flexible regulation of behavior is subjects’ ability to compare and integrate information about the world with information constantly coming from outside. We report here studies using stereoelectroencephalography to record the hippocampal local field potential in subjects performing a task of assessing the congruence of “object–context” stimulus pairs. These investigations showed that the hippocampus is involved in processing object-context congruence information. Processing of information congruent to previously formed semantic knowledge is accompanied by earlier hippocampal activation than processing information requiring establishment of new associative links.
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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel’nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 360–369, May–June, 2022.
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Vorobiova, A.N., Fedele, T., Pavone, E.F. et al. The Speed of Hippocampal Processing of Contextual Information is Linked with Its Congruence with Previously Developed Schemas. Neurosci Behav Physi 52, 1429–1435 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-023-01374-z
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