Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Labyrinths

LDr. Wilson reported that after running a maze, rats would replay their route during idle moments, as if to consolidate the memory, although the replay, surprisingly, was in reverse order of travel. These fast rewinds lasted a small fraction of the actual time spent on the journey.

—Nicholas Wade, "In Memory Bank Dialogue, The Brain Is Talking to Itself," NYT, December 18, 2006

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