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		GiraffeNecktie on March 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual... I don't understand your reference to Pavlov's dog, it's more comparable to Penfield's work with stimulation of specific points of the brain. Also the ExtremeTech headline is a bit misleading. The related MIT article is a little more clear that this involves memories in a small cluster of neurons, not one memory per neuron as is implied by the heading above. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/conjuring-memories-artifi...

mrsebastian on March 23, 2012 [–]

Yea -- sorry, I mention later that it's a cluster, but I will update the first paragraph to mention that it's a cluster, not single neurons.

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