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The Brain & Memory

Researchers have long been curious about how human memory works. In recent years, scientists have begun using new brain imaging technologies and other techniques to gain new insights into how the brain stores memories, and how those memories are later retrieved. In part of a special series on the brain, Michelle Trudeau explores the latest scientific understanding of how the brain processes memory.

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