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Multiplexed memories: a view from human cortex

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A study recording directly from the human brain shows that connectivity between the prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex and the medial temporal lobe across different frequency bands underlies successful memory retrieval.

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Figure 1: Individual subdural recording sites from the patients studied by Watrous et al.1 (blue, prefrontal; green, parietal; orange, precuneus; yellow, parahippocampal).

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  1. Robert T. Knight is in the Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA,

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  2. Howard Eichenbaum is in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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