Newborn brain cells 'time-stamp' memories

'Remember when...?' is how many a wistful trip down memory lane begins. But just how the brain keeps tabs on what happened and when is still a matter of speculation. A computational model developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies now suggests that newborn brain cells - generated by the thousands each day - add a time-related code, which is unique to memories formed around the same time...

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