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Cracking the mnemonic code

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Evidence reveals that humans share remarkably similar patterns of event-specific neural activity during spontaneous spoken recall. Posterior medial cortex appears to play a key role in transforming experience into memory.

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Figure 1: Recall–recall patterns between people are more consistent than movie–recall patterns.

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