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Does the hippocampus preplay memories?

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Previous studies have reported 'preplay' of hippocampal neural activity patterns associated with events yet to occur. Silva et al. challenge this finding on the basis of large-scale recordings before and after experiences.

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Figure 1: Models of memory-related sequence generation in neural hippocampal activity.

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