title: Learning by example in the hippocampus.
abstract: Learning can be facilitated by previous knowledge when it is organized into relational representations forming schemas. In this issue of Neuron, McKenzie et al. (2014) demonstrate that the hippocampus rapidly forms interrelated, hierarchical memory representations to support schema-based learning.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.affiliation: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria. Electronic address: jozsef.csicsvari@ist.ac.at.
authors.forename: Jozsef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Csicsvari
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012201:Reward