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How Our Brain Embeds Memories
Neurons Store Memory Content and Context Separately Neural division of labor: Our brain doesn't store past experiences and their context together, but rather in two separate groups of brain cells, as an experiment reveals. Only the combination of both creates a complete memory. Content neurons, therefore, store only the information itself, such as an object or a person. Context neurons, on the other hand, only remember the circumstances. This division of labor makes our memor

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