Author Correction: Hippocampal-prefrontal orchestration supports higher-order learning for creative ideation

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67157-x, published online 11 December 2025 In the version of this article initially published, in the Fig. 2c Source Data and associated figure panel, Fig. 2c data were inadvertent duplicates of Fig. 2b data. The figure has been updated, and in the Fig. 2c legend, first paragraph of the Results and in the Supplementary Information result S1, the text “t(26) = 2.55, p = 0.017, R2 = 0.20, 95% CI [0.018, 0.172]; Fig. 2C, result. S1)” now replaces the original “(t(26) = 3.63, p = 0.001, R2 = 0.34, 95% CI [0.08, 0.30]; Fig. 2C, result.

S1).” Additional reporting corrections included the hippocampal–prefrontal connectivity statistic in the exemplar-copying control analysis (t(22) = 3.26, p = 0.004 to t(22) = 2.55, p = 0.018), the Fig. 6b statistics (t(38) = 2.72, pBonferroni = 0.02 to t(38) = 2.50, pBonferroni = 0.03), and minor adjustments to statistical values, confidence intervals and effect-size reporting in Figs. 3d, 4b and 6b,c legends and related Exp. 2 analyses. In Fig. 5b and d, the panel labels/positions were inadvertently interchanged, and the corresponding effect-size labels were corrected from R2 to Cohen’s dz. These amendments do not alter the direction or statistical significance of the reported effects, or the interpretation and conclusions of the article.

Apart from the Fig. 2c Source Data correction, the original experimental and Source Data remain unchanged. The relevant text, figure legends, figures and Supplementary Information have been updated accordingly. For comparison, the original Figs. 2 and 5 are available as Supplementary Information accompanying this amendment.

Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China Ze Zhang, Ziyi Li, Xingxu Xie, Jiaqi Wu & Jing Luo State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China China Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Department of Psychology, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China Correspondence to Shaozheng Qin or Jing Luo. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it.

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Zhang, Z., Li, Z., Ding, R. et al. Author Correction: Hippocampal-prefrontal orchestration supports higher-order learning for creative ideation. Nat Commun 17, 11457 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78748-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78748-7