Wired for Memory? Electrical and Structural Connectivity Linked

RESEARCH NEWS 2011-11-14 Research News Beyond flash cards and mnemonics, hard-wired differences in brain structure and neural firing rhythms may give some people an edge in their ability to remember things. That’s the gist of a study, published in the November 3 Current Biology o

Yuanxin Chen

United States

Kelley Woodside

United States

Pedro Rosa-Neto

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Mukesh Ogadram

United States

ricardo reynoso

Peru

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