Wired for memory: how your brain remembers by completing patterns
Your brain is the best pattern completion machine in the known universe. A fragment of input – a snatch of music, or a few words – and your brain fills in the rest. But how does it do this? A fabulous new study has unravelled the machinery, right down to the level of individual neurons, and shown that an ancient theory is correct. (Ancient in neuroscience being anything that predates Pop Tarts).
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