This repository contains code and data accompanying the following paper (Bausch et al., 2021):

Concept neurons in the human medial temporal lobe flexibly represent abstract relations between concepts

Marcel Bausch¹, Johannes Niediek¹, Thomas P. Reber^1,2*, Sina Mackay¹, Jan Boström³, Christian E. Elger¹, Florian Mormann¹

¹ Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

² Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland

³ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

If you have any questions, please contact marcel.bausch.ukb@gmail.com. All data files and code are in Matlab format.

Code

We used Matlab R2016b with the statistics toolbox. To reproduce the figures in the manuscript, start matlab, navigate to the repository-folder and add it to the matlabpath:

cd('/Path/to/this/repo');
addpath(pwd);

Then call one of these scripts or functions:

• plot_figures.m: gives an overview of all functions. Run each code block separately to reproduce the respective figure from the paper.
• plot_*.m: all functions with this prefix in plot_figures.m do the actual plotting.
• create_*.m: all functions with this prefix in plot_figures.m show how the statistics for the respective subfigure was computed.