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Synchronicity: when you're gone I'm lost without a trace?

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Recordings from the human medial temporal lobe suggest that synchronization of oscillations between rhinal cortex and hippocampus may contribute to building declarative memories.

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Figure 1: EEG recordings from human medial temporal lobe revealed greater gamma phase synchronization and desynchronization during the encoding of words later remembered compared to words later forgotten.

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  2. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

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