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Nature Neuroscience 9, 489–491 (1 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/nn1663

Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection

Leun J Otten , Angela H Quayle , Sarah Akram , Thomas A Ditewig & Michael D Rugg

Neural activity elicited by an event can predict whether the event is successfully encoded into memory. Here we assessed whether memory encoding relies not only on neural activity that follows an event, but also on activity that precedes it.