Cognitive Goals Research Articles

Cyber risk management technology to strengthen the information security of the national economy

Purpose. Developing a technology for managing cyber risks based on their improved classification by the level of impact on the occurrence of an extreme situation. Methodology. To achieve the goal, general scientific and special methods of cognition were used in the study: dialectical and systemic approaches, analysis and synthesis, logical generalization and grouping, structural-logical method, iterative approach, modeling, method of formal representations of uncertainty. Findings. A cyber risk management technology has been developed, consisting of four main stages: analysis of cyber threats (context establishment; security audit; formation of scenario concepts); scenario modeling (threat decomposition; scenario formation; setting criteria; setting probability estimates of concepts (variables); building a network architecture; formation of a private threat model; scenario analysis); risk assessment; object classification. The proposed approach to cybersecurity risk management provides vulnerability detection and risk assessment (risk potential) and simplifies the development of management solutions to prevent events affecting cybersecurity. Originality. The proposed technology differs from the existing ones by focusing on identifying those vulnerabilities and cyber threats that, according to their improved classification by the level of impact on the occurrence of an extreme situation, can lead to serious disruptions in the functioning of critical information infrastructure of the national economy. Practical value. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the proposed cyber risk management technology is one of the tools for preventing the realization of risks in cyberspace and the basis for strengthening the information security of economic entities in particular and the national economy as a whole.

The underlying mechanisms of alignment in error backpropagation through arbitrary weights

Understanding the mechanisms by which plasticity in millions of synapses in the brain is orchestrated to achieve behavioral and cognitive goals is a fundamental question in neuroscience. In this regard, insights from learning methods in artificial neural networks (ANNs) and in particular supervised learning using backpropagation (BP) seem inspiring. However, the implementation of BP requires exact matching between forward and backward weights, which is unrealistic given the known connectivity pattern in the brain (known as the “weight transport problem”). Notably, it has been shown that under certain conditions, error BackPropagation Through Arbitrary Weights (BP-TAW) can lead to a partial alignment between forward and backward weights (weight alignment or WA). This learning algorithm, which is also known as feedback alignment (FA), can result in surprisingly good degrees of accuracy in simple classification tasks. However, the underlying mechanisms and mathematical basis of WA are not thoroughly understood. In this work, we demonstrate the mathematical basis of WA and answer the question of why and in what conditions WA occurs. We show that the occurrence of WA in ANNs is induced by statistical properties of the output and error signals of neurons, such as autocorrelation and cross-correlation, and can happen even in the absence of learning or reduction of the loss function. Moreover, we show that WA can be improved significantly by limiting the norm of input weights to neurons and that such a weight normalization (WN) method can improve the classification accuracy of BP-TAW. The findings presented can be used to further improve the performance of BP-TAW and open new ways for exploring possible learning mechanisms in biological neural networks without exact matching between forward and backward weights.

The Essence and Epistemological Significance of the Conceptual Dispute between Fallibilism and Infallibilism

For hundreds of years, almost all representatives of philosophical epistemology have assumed that human knowledge should be based on irrefutable, infallible and absolute foundation. Finding such stable epistemological milestones that will serve as the epistemological basis for the formation of infallible knowledge, cognition, and the creation of more fundamental concepts of knowledge—and, as the ultimate goal, cognition and true knowledge—was the dream of many philosophers and epistemologists. The epistemological dispute of fallibilism and infallibilism is highly valuable when viewed through the lens of the presented problem. A decision in favour of either side may lead one to reconsider issues such as the nature and justification of knowledge, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, the possibility of cognition, the nature of truth and its criteria, truth as the end goal of scientific research and cognition, and the issues surrounding the growth and progress of science. These issues are fundamental and guiding issues for the future development of philosophical epistemology and philosophy of science. Despite the fact that various attempts have been made to study the epistemological dispute of opposing concepts, especially since the 19th century, and each of the concepts separately has been the subject of numerous studies throughout the history of philosophy, nevertheless, today there is still no unified understanding of the essence of the epistemological dispute of fallibilism and infallibilism, the main range of problems and questions of the latter, as well as the epistemological meaning of the conceptual dispute. The study and analysis of the essence of an epistemological dispute, the clarification of its epistemological meaning, as well as the identification in the context of the dispute and the framework of epistemological and scientific problems arising from it are considered the central points of this work. To this end , the following tasks and questions were set in the article: 1. What is the essence and epistemological significance of the dispute between fallibilism and infallibilism? 2. What range of problems does an epistemological dispute suggest? 3. What is the significance of the epistemological dispute between fallibilism and infallibilism from the perspective of understanding, rethinking and solving the problems of philosophical epistemology and philosophy of science?

초등영어 쓰기에서 비계를 강화한 내용-언어 통합(CLIL) 모델 개발

Objectives CLIL(Content-Language Integrated Learning) is an approach that aims to teach subjects through a foreign language, with the dual purpose of content and language learning (Marsh, 2002). CLIL classes require precise mediation of curriculum objectives, language goals, cognitive goals, and cultural objectives. However, there has been a shortage of practical classroom examples, making it challenging for teachers in the field to implement CLIL effectively. This research proposes an approach to bulid a model to integrate coding content and English in line with the 4Cs framework(Coyle, 2006; Coyle et al., 2010).
 Methods Through peer teacher interviews, teacher journals, and student interviews, students' cognitive and language challenges was detected, thus the model incorporated support into the existing 4Cs framework.
 Results The support includes providing the native language, multi-modal learning materials, and collaborating. As a result, the 4CS framework with additional scaffolding was presented.
 Conclusions This research aims to provide guidelines for CLIL instruction, offering detailed examples of CLIL approaches according to specific topics to facilitate the implementation of content-language integration in real classroom settings.

THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN UKRAINE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE LATE XVIII – EARLY XX CENTURY

The purpose of the work. The article describes and analyses the achievements of such figures as S. Desnitsky, M. Bałudjanski, V. Karazin in the process of formation and development of Ukrainian economic thought in the period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is analysed that the most significant influence on the system of economic views of these Ukrainian researchers was made by the concepts of representatives of classical political economy. Methodology. To achieve this goal, both general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition were used, in particular scientific abstraction, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis – to study the sources, provisions and hypotheses expressed by S. Desnіtsky, M. Bałudjanski, V. Karazin, formed under the influence of the views of the classic of political economy A. Smith. Results. The article analyses the views and ideas of S. Desnіtsky, M. Bałudjanski, and V. Karazin in historical, evolutionary, theoretical and practical aspects. It is determined that the economic views of these Ukrainian scholars are mainly based on the theoretical foundations of classical political economy, in particular, on the concepts of A. Smith. Scientific novelty. It is substantiated that S. Desnіtsky's research was focused on the category of "property" and the analysis of property relations; M. Bałudjanski in his manuscripts approved the conceptual apparatus of political economy, studying the market mechanism, situation and competition in the field of agricultural production; V. Karazin, being a supporter of the labour theory of value, developed an agricultural programme, implemented his projects and inventions in agriculture, developing also Ukrainian technical thought. Practical Significance. The study found that theoretical scholars served the interests of resource owners, associated wealth with virtue, justified the existence of landowners and their exploitation of hired labour, and saw laziness, disinterest in labour results, and the inability to organise their work responsibly and reasonably as the main cause of poverty. For example, M. Bałudjanski and V. Karazin saw the cause of poverty of the common people of Ukraine in drunkenness and laziness, which led to moral and material impoverishment; they considered their main task to be to help wealthier peasants who had some starting capital; they received certain subventions from governments.

Features of Delimitation of Crimes Provided for in Articles 285 of the Criminal Code and 286 of the Criminal Code when they are Committed in the Public Procurement

The specifics of the criminal law regulation of liability for abuse of official powers and their excess committed in the field of public procurement are determined by the specifics of the regulation of the activities of officials participating in this sphere within the framework of their “procurement” and related functions. The correct qualification of acts committed in the field of public procurement requires reference to numerous regulations of the legislation on the contract system and on the procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities. The need to refer to the legislation on the contract system and on the procurement of goods, works, services by certain types of legal entities in the qualification of abuse of official powers and their excess arises when determining the content of the signs of the subject and almost all the signs of the objective side of the deed. Industry legislation in the context under consideration is characterized by high dynamism, “layering”, a significant number of contradictions and shortcomings. These circumstances determine errors and lack of uniformity in judicial practice when distinguishing crimes provided for in Articles 285 of the Criminal Code and 286 of the Criminal Code when they are committed in the field of public procurement. Homogeneous, and in some cases identical criminal actions of customer officials – violations in the pricing of goods, works, services; actions restricting competition (inaction); violations of the established procedure for concluding (changing, terminating) state and municipal contracts; violations in the acceptance of delivered goods (work performed, services rendered), etc. – may receive different criminal legal assessment. The purpose of the article is to develop recommendations and criteria for distinguishing crimes provided for in Articles 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, taking into account the peculiarities of criminal legal assessment when committing these acts in the field of public procurement. To achieve this goal, general scientific (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and private scientific (formal legal) methods of cognition were used. In the study, taking into account the recommendations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, theoretical positions in the science of criminal law, the peculiarities of the legal regulation of public procurement, recommendations for distinguishing the crimes under consideration, taking into account the specifics of the situation of their commission, are formulated.

Improved Competitive Neural Network for Classification of Human Postures Based on Data fom RGB-D Sensors

The cognitive goal of this paper is to assess whether marker‐less motion capture systems provide sufficient data to recognize human postures in the side view. The research goal is to develop a new posture classification method that allows for analysing human activities using data recorded by RGB‐D sensors. The method is insensi tive to recorded activity duration and gives satisfactory results for the sagittal plane. An improved competitive Neural Network (cNN) was used. The method of preprocessing the data is first discussed. Then, a method for classifying human postures is presented. Finally, classification quality using various distance metrics is assessed.The data sets covering the selection of human activities have been created. Postures typical for these activities have been identified using the classifying neural network. The classification quality obtained using the proposed cNN network and two other popular neural networks were compared. The results confirmed the advantage of cNN network. The developed method makes it possible to recognize human postures by observing movement in the sagittal plane.

Этническая идентичность в теории и цифрах: на примере коренных малочисленных северных народов

The actual study of ethnic identity is conditioned by the previous socio-political context. In the West, attention to ethnic identity is a marker of post-colonial studies, while in Russia it is a departure from the formation of a new historical community "Soviet people". Accordingly, the cognitive goals of studying ethnic identity also differ from the manipulation of ethnic identities, leading to the split in a previously unified society, to identifying factors that contribute to the preservation of ethnic minority cultures. Defining the content of ethnic identity as consisting of cognitive and behavioral components makes it possible to use the concepts of "ethnic identity" and "ethnicity" as synonyms. The instrumentalist approach combining the ideas of primordial and constructivist concepts was used in a concrete sociological study of the ethnic identity of the aboriginal people. The hypothesis put forward by the study about the threat to the ethnic identity of the minorities from the processes of globalization was confirmed, but required clarification. The influence of globalization on ethnic identity is indirect; the dominant national culture acts as a buffer between them.

Neurophysiological brain function predicts response to cognitive rehabilitation and mindfulness in multiple sclerosis: a randomized trial

BackgroundCognitive treatment response varies highly in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Identification of mechanisms is essential for predicting response.ObjectivesThis study aimed to investigate whether brain network function predicts response to cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT).MethodsPwMS with cognitive complaints completed CRT, MBCT, or enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) and performed three measurements (baseline, post-treatment, 6-month follow-up). Baseline magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures were used to predict treatment effects on cognitive complaints, personalized cognitive goals, and information processing speed (IPS) using mixed models (secondary analysis REMIND-MS study).ResultsWe included 105 PwMS (96 included in prediction analyses; 32 CRT, 31 MBCT, 33 ETAU), and 56 healthy controls with baseline MEG. MEG did not predict reductions in complaints. Higher connectivity predicted better goal achievement after MBCT (p = 0.010) and CRT (p = 0.018). Lower gamma power (p = 0.006) and higher connectivity (p = 0.020) predicted larger IPS benefits after MBCT. These MEG predictors indicated worse brain function compared to healthy controls (p < 0.05).ConclusionsBrain network function predicted better cognitive goal achievement after MBCT and CRT, and IPS improvements after MBCT. PwMS with neuronal slowing and hyperconnectivity were most prone to show treatment response, making network function a promising tool for personalized treatment recommendations.Trial registrationThe REMIND-MS study was prospectively registered in the Dutch Trial registry (NL6285; https://trialsearch.who.int/Trial2.aspx?TrialID=NTR6459).

KOMPETENSI PENULISAN KARYA ILMIAH GURU DALAM PERSPEKTIF AGIL

This study analyzes academic writing competence among teachers at SMA Negeri 6 Pontianak using Talcott Parsons' AGIL theory. This study involves nine teachers with job classifications IVa/b as participants. Employing qualitative methods, data were collected through in-depth interviews, academic paper observations, and performance document reviews. In the digital age, writing skills are crucial for educators adapting to evolving education trends. Findings reveal inadequate adaptation to educational policies and limited commitment to teacher professionalism. Despite achieving commitment to academic writing, teachers focus on cognitive goals, neglecting practical applications in the classroom and facing resource planning constraints. There is a moderate integration of research findings into teaching tasks. Competence development is sporadic, with a significant percentage having not undergone training, and All respondents lack support for research funding latency. Urgent actions are necessary to improve teachers' policy adaptation, broaden academic writing goals to include practical applications, enhance resource planning, and provide consistent support for competence development through training and financial assistance. This research emphasizes the critical need for comprehensive improvements to address current challenges in teacher professionalism and academic writing competencies, contributing valuable insights for educational policy and practice

Edukacyjne możliwości przygotowania młodych dorosłych do założenia rodziny

The presented analyzes are limited to the educational tasks of schools and other institutions that provide planned or spontaneous activities in the field of preparation for starting a family. The theoretical and cognitive goal of the presented studies is to analyze educational conditions and prepare young adults to start a family. This goal was achieved by answering the research questions: 1) What are the benefits of support for family relationships? 2) What are their characteristics and how are they shaped by parental behavior? 3) What are the educational opportunities to prepare for starting a family at school and beyond? Considering the location to achieve a practical and useful goal: application tools, features selected for analysis for research and pedagogical practices. In terms of the principles of application of principles and criticism of literature.

Modulation of attention to pain by goal-directed action: a somatosensory evoked potentials approach.

Attentional processes are modulated by current goal pursuit. While pursuing salient cognitive goals, individuals prioritize goal-related information and suppress goal-irrelevant ones. This occurs in the context of pain too, where nonpain cognitive goal pursuit was found to have inhibitory effects on pain-related attention. Crucially, how pursuing nonpain motor goals affects pain-related somatosensory attention is still unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate whether nonpain motor goal pursuit would attenuate pain-related somatosensory attention. Healthy volunteers (N = 45) performed a robotic arm conditioning task where movements were paired with conflicting (pain and reward), threatening (only pain) or neutral (no pain and no reward) outcomes. To increase the motivational value of pursuing the nonpain motor goal, in the conflicting condition participants could receive a reward for a good motor performance. To examine somatosensory attention during movement, somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs; N120 and P200) were obtained in response to innocuous tactile stimuli administered on a pain-relevant or pain-irrelevant body location. We expected that the threat of pain would enhance somatosensory attention. Furthermore, we expected that the possibility of getting a reward would inhibit this effect, due to pain-reward interactions. Against our predictions, the amplitude of the N120 did not differ across movement types and locations. Furthermore, the P200 component showed significantly larger SEPs for conflicting and threat movements compared to neutral, suggesting that the threat of pain increased somatosensory attention. However, this effect was not modulated by nonpain motor goal pursuit, as reflected by the lack of modulation of the N120 and P200 in the conflicting condition as compared to the threat condition. This study corroborates the idea that pain-related somatosensory attention is enhanced by threat of pain, even when participants were motivated to move to obtain a reward.

International health security

The paper proposes the classification of health security as one of the non-military security dimensions of the second generation, determined more by globalization processes than by the end of the Cold War (first generation). The cognitive goal of the article is to identify and analyse the elements of the structure of international health security such as 1) the essence and specificity of securitization of threats to health security; 2) health security threats; 3) the referent object or whom it concerns; and 4) measures to ensure it. Specific to this dimension is the political motivation for its securitization. In the world of interrelated and global mobilities, what is significant for health security is the diversity of the development level, preferred values, and, consequently, the diversity of sensitivity and susceptibility of national healthcare systems to cross-border threats.

1 Cognitive Rehabilitation and Mindfulness Reduce Cognitive Complaints in Multiple Sclerosis (REMIND-MS): a Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective:Cognitive problems, both complaints and objective impairments, are frequent and disabling in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and profoundly affect daily living. However, intervention studies that focus on cognitive problems that patients experience in their daily lives are limited. This study therefore aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on patient-reported cognitive complaints in MS.Participants and Methods:In this randomized-controlled trial, MS patients with cognitive complaints completed questionnaires and underwent neuropsychological assessments at baseline, post-treatment and 6-month follow-up. Patient-reported cognitive complaints were primarily investigated. Secondary outcomes included personalized cognitive goals and objective cognitive function. CRT and MBCT were compared to enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) using linear mixed models.Results:Patients were randomized into CRT (n=37), MBCT (n=36) or ETAU (n=37), of whom 100 completed the study. Both CRT and MBCT positively affected patient-reported cognitive complaints compared to ETAU at post-treatment (p&lt;.05), but not 6 months later. At 6-month follow-up, CRT had a positive effect on personalized cognitive goals (p=.028) and MBCT on processing speed (p=.027). Patients with less cognitive complaints at baseline benefited more from CRT on the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (i.e. primary outcome measuring cognitive complaints) at post-treatment (p=.012-.040), and those with better processing speed at baseline benefited more from MBCT (p=.016).Conclusions:Both CRT and MBCT alleviated cognitive complaints in MS patients immediately after treatment completion, but these benefits did not persist. In the long term, CRT showed benefits on personalized cognitive goals and MBCT on processing speed. These results thereby provide insight in the specific contributions of available cognitive treatments for MS patients.

Assessing CO2 Adsorption Behavior onto Free-Standing, Flexible Organic Framework-PVDF Composite Membrane: An Empirical Modeling and Validation of an Experimental Data Set.

Covalent organic framework (COF) materials have greatly expanded their range in a variety of applications since the cognitive goal of a highly organized and durable adsorbent is quite rational. The characteristics of a conjugated organic framework are combined with an industrially relevant polymer to produce a composite membrane optimized for selectively adsorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) gas across a wide temperature range. Additionally, treatment of the composite membrane with cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) that specifically enhanced the parent membrane's surface area by 36% is established. Following CAP treatment, the membrane accelerates the CO2 uptake by as much as 66%. This is primarily due to a Lewis acid-base interaction between the electron-deficient carbon atom of CO2 and the newly acquired functionalities on the COFs@PVDF membrane's surface. In particular, the C-N bonds, which appear to be a higher electron density site, play a key role in this interaction. Moreover, the empirical model proposed here has confirmed CO2 adsorption phenomena in the COF@PVDF composite membrane, which closely matches the findings from the experimental data set under designated operating conditions. As a result, the current study may pave the way for future design work as well as refine the covalent framework polymer composite membrane's features, revealing a more sophisticated approach to addressing CO2 capture problems.

The Human Rights and Freedoms in Constitution of Romania of 1866

The purpose of the article is the analysis of the provisions of the first Constitution of Romania of 1866 in terms of guaranteeing of Human Rights and freedoms by the state. The article points out that the adoption of the Constitution of 1866 became a fateful state legal act for the entire Romanian people, since it meant a radical change in the ratio of external and internal factors in the state-building process of the Romanian state. To achieve this goal, general scientific and special-scientific methods of cognition were used, in particular, dialectical-legal-comparative, legal-formal. It has been determined that the accepted Constitution in 1866 in terms of guaranteeing Human Rights and freedoms has had a truly liberal character and has become the progressive state-legal act for the state-building process of Romania; the need to follow the norms of the Basic Law gradually have made constitutionalism as the form of thinking, which has contributed to the further expansion of democratic rights and freedoms and the development of the democratic views in the country.

Reflections on the cognitive purpose of comparative law (comparative jurisprudence)

The article showing that the highest goal of each autonomous general legal discourse is the construction and implementation of its vision and mission as a special picture of the world – a conceptualized and structured model of an aspect or fragment of reality accessible through its research program and methods. Depending on different types of scientific rationality, this picture of the world can be considered as a subject, object or goal of a scientific discipline, but it continues to be the main question of the latter, even if it is not formulated as such. The claim to the right to construct and present one’s own picture of the world as common to all legal discourses has actually been and is a key point of competition and dominance between legal philosophy, legal theory and comparative jurisprudence (comparative law) during the last two centuries. The author argues that only comparative jurisprudence’s awareness of its own fundamental experience and continuity, available opportunities and valuable advantages in creating a picture of the world can bring it from a semi-marginal state to a well-deserved central status among general legal disciplines in the scientific and educational agenda. In addition, a realistic and inductive picture of the world of comparative jurisprudence is better for considering and modeling the existing and potential serious challenges of legal development. Key words: scientifi c picture of the world, cognitive goal of science, comparative law, comparative jurisprudence.

Examination of Student Cognition and Instruction of Domain-Specific Lesson Goals

This study examined preservice teachers’ instruction of goals in specific learning domains in physical education class and students’ in- terpretation of these goals. Four preservice physical education teachers (all male) from a large urban university taught two lessons to eight sixth-grade students at an urban K–6 elementary school. The theory of cognitive mediation was the framework for this study. Piloted qualitative methods included video recordings of each lesson, stimulated recall, two 20-to-25-min semistructured interviews, and collected lesson plans. Data were analyzed through the constant comparative method. Three major themes emerged: goals for incorporating skills into game play were difficult to identify, affective goals were not explained, and cognitive goals were not implemented. Results indicate that teacher- training programs should develop strategies that will assist students to identify the domain goals of the lesson. This study indicates specifically the areas in which domain goals are lacking during the instructional process.

SYNERGY OF THE CRIMINOLOGICAL SPACE

Synergy implies the «merging of energies» as the evolution of a system occurs through all its elements interaction, regardless of how small their role may seem in the overall functioning of the system. The fundamental synergy postulate is the concept of the spontaneous emergence of order and organization from chaos through internal systemic self-organization and exchange with the external environment. Moreover, the system development is depicted as a succession of ordered and chaotic states, facilitating the system adaptation and self-preservation, progressing through stages of intensification to reach a new level of existence. Notably, the synergistic direction is also referred to as systemic-dynamic, and it represents the most challenging component of the criminological area, offering the most expressive portrayal of its content, which, however, contemporary researchers either refute or disregard.&#x0D; This article is to define this phenomenon, providing the criminological discourse as a synergistic system — a system of meanings within the criminological area that self-organizes, taking shape through their linguistic expression and mobilizing the functional potential of all elements on the path toward the attractor (cognitive goal). Conclusion: It can be argued that the intentional, purposeful expression of specific ideas by a criminologist simultaneously initiates processes of functional self-organization within the criminological discourse system. This is because the recipient’s perception of the idea occurs not so much as a sequential (chain-like) addition of unfolding semantic components but as an accumulation and integration into a unified, multidimensional criminological area.

Cognitive tasks affect the relationship between representational pattern similarity and subsequent item memory in the hippocampus

Episodic memories are records of personally experienced events, coded neurally via the hippocampus and surrounding medial temporal lobe cortex. Information about the neural signal corresponding to a memory representation can be measured in fMRI data when the pattern across voxels is examined. Prior studies have found that similarity in the voxel patterns across repetition of a to-be-remembered stimulus predicts later memory retrieval, but the results are inconsistent across studies. The current study investigates the possibility that cognitive goals (defined here via the task instructions given to participants) during encoding affect the voxel pattern that will later support memory retrieval, and therefore that neural representations cannot be interpreted based on the stimulus alone. The behavioral results showed that exposure to variable cognitive tasks across repetition of events benefited subsequent memory retrieval. Voxel patterns in the hippocampus indicated a significant interaction between cognitive tasks (variable vs. consistent) and memory (remembered vs. forgotten) such that reduced voxel pattern similarity for repeated events with variable cognitive tasks, but not consistent cognitive tasks, supported later memory success. There was no significant interaction in neural pattern similarity between cognitive tasks and memory success in medial temporal cortices or lateral occipital cortex. Instead, higher similarity in voxel patterns in right medial temporal cortices was associated with later memory retrieval, regardless of cognitive task. In conclusion, we found that the relationship between pattern similarity across repeated encoding and memory success in the hippocampus (but not medial temporal lobe cortex) changes when the cognitive task during encoding does or does not vary across repetitions of the event.