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Study reveals the part of brain that stores memories of familiar places – Hindustan Times
A new study unravels the question about where the transformation of our surroundings and information, entering our brain’s visual cortex, into spatial knowledge…
A new study from Dartmouth College reveals that three regions of the brain in the posterior cerebral cortex, which the researchers call ‘place-memory areas’, form a link between the brain’s perceptual and memory systems, which helps the brain to store in memories of familiar places.
The findings are published in Nature Communications.
“As we navigate our surroundings, information enters the visual cortex and somehow ends up as knowledge of where we are — the question is where this transformation…
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