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How our brain ‘joins the dots’ while we are asleep – CGTN
What happens in our brain when we make an ‘educated guess’? Researchers in the UK have studied how the brain ‘join the dots’ between separate experiences.
“I’m looking for my friend Sam,” says Helen Barron, a researcher at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford. “Someone tells me that Ben is in the library. I know that Sam and Ben go everywhere together, so I guess that Sam is in the library too.”
That is a straightforward example of the kind of ‘educated guesses’ we make every day to navigate our lives. Until now, we knew very little about how the brain ‘joins the dots’ between separate memorie…
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