The neuroscience behind remembering the past and plotting the future

Friday, December 20, 2019 - 11:00 in Psychology & Sociology

During sleep, the brain replays each memory from the day in a unique pattern of brain cell firings. The activation of a pattern essentially creates a recording of the memory so it can be stored for the long term. This process, called memory consolidation, occurs while we’re awake, too. In a recent paper in Neuron, assistant … Continue reading The neuroscience behind remembering the past and plotting the future

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