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The animal brain replays memories to map its environment

News: Neuroscience    March 14, 2010
“The point of the cognitive map is flexibility. It gives animals the ability to plan novel paths within their environment,” said Redish [A. David Redish, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA]. “This replay process may be an animal’s way of learning how the world is interconnected, so it can plan new routes or paths.” [Source: [...]
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Two (neuro)memory bits

Impact: Neuroscience    November 11, 2009
Here are two bits of news, just announced via press release, about research into the function of memory (human or otherwise). What a wonderful neurological amalgam is a brain. It seems that whenever science tries to understand the brain with the technique of compartmentalization (part of the process of reductionism), as often as not further [...]
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