Visualizing How the Brain Retrieves Memories (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Visualizing How the Brain Retrieves Memories

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During memory retrieval, cells in the hippocampus (C-shape structures) connect to cells in the brain cortex. Activated cells in this mouse brain fluoresce green. The hippocampus helps the cells in the cortex recreate the pattern of activation from when the memory was formed, so the memory is retrieved.

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Kazumasa Tanaka/Brian Wiltgen, UC Davis

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