#9213. Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’

November 2026publication date
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience;
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology;
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Abstract:
Rolls E.T. (20XX) makes interesting arguments in response to Quirogas claim of no pattern separation in the human hippocampus (Quiroga R.Q., 20XX). However, these arguments reflect long-standing misconceptions about the coding of human hippocampal memories and some misunderstandings about the human experiments and data. To his criticisms, Quiroga says here that (i) there is currently no single solid evidence of pattern separation, that is, conjunctive coding at the single neuron level, in the human hippocampus; (ii) on the contrary, evidence so far points to a lack of conjunctive hippocampal coding in humans, distinct to what has been described in the rat and monkey hippocampus; and (iii) given the richness of human memory, the core notion of storing our experiences in separate, largely orthogonal (pattern-separated) hippocampal assemblies does not make sense.
Keywords:
concept cells; conjunctive coding; engram; episodic memory; hippocampus; memory coding; sparse coding

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