Electrodes show a glimpse of memories emerging in a brain
Certain nerve cells sync their firing just before a recollection resurfaces
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ALTOGETHER NOW Fast ripples of activity appear in the hippocampus, a memory center in the brain, right before a person describes a previously seen image, a study finds.
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