MIT study reveals how brain regions use special cells to form memories, both spatial and episodic.

MIT researchers have developed a model explaining how the brain's hippocampus and entorhinal cortex use place and grid cells to form and store episodic memories. The model shows these brain regions can create memories with or without spatial information, using grid cells as a scaffold that points to specific memories in the brain. This research, published in Nature, helps understand how the brain stores vast amounts of information and how spatial memory is linked to episodic memory.

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