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Nature 434, 567 (31 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434567a; Published online 30 March 2005
Concept The Janus face of Mnemosyne
Yadin Dudai1 & Mary Carruthers2
- Yadin Dudai is in the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel, and a visiting Global Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at New York University, New York 10003, USA.
- Mary Carruthers is at the Faculties of English, History and Religious Studies, New York University, New York 10003, USA.
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Abstract
Memory: some systems in the brain may be better equipped to handle the future than the past.
"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past." Neuroscientists studying memory today might find T.
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