Neuroscientists explain 'Proustian effect' of small details attached to big memories

Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 14:33 in Health & Medicine

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work is slated to appear in the Jan. 13 issue of Neuron.

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