MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a visual scene. The new study, published in the journal NeuroImage, found that when parahippocampal cortex was very active before people were shown an image, they were less likely to remember it later. ‘When that area is busy, for some reason or another, it’s less ready to learn something new,’...
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