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The brain creates three copies for a single memory

Early-born neurons

Early-born neurons (magenta) in the mouse hippocampus create a long-persisting copy of a memory.

A new study from Prof. Flavio Donato at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, now published in “Science”, reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel “copies”, which are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted over time.

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