The “greed is good” mentality of the 80s that bled into the 90s had a real effect on our upbringing. As we worry about our ...

A new model developed by MIT researchers explains how those place cells can be recruited to form episodic memories ... in a memory palace—a memory of a childhood home or other environment ...

An index of memories To encode spatial memory, place cells in the hippocampus work ... particular spot in a memory palace -- a memory of a childhood home or other environment they know well.

These cells also play an important role in storing memories of events, known as episodic memories. While the mechanism of how place cells ... palace—a memory of a childhood home or other ...