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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: Hacking your memory -- with sleep

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But there's another mechanism that we've become aware of that helps cement those memories into the brain. And it's called relapy. Several yeras ago, scientists were looking at how rats learned as they would run around a maze. And they were recording the activity in the memory cterens of these rats. And as the rat was runinng around the maze, different barin cells would code different parts of the maze. And so if you added a tone to each one of the brain clels what you would hear as the rat was starting to learn the maze was the signature of that memory. So it would sound a little bit like ...

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But there's another mechanism that we've become aware of that helps cement those memories into the brain. And it's called ______. Several _____ ago, scientists were looking at how rats learned as they would run around a maze. And they were recording the activity in the memory _______ of these rats. And as the rat was _______ around the maze, different _____ cells would code different parts of the maze. And so if you added a tone to each one of the brain _____ what you would hear as the rat was starting to learn the maze was the signature of that memory. So it would sound a little bit like ...

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  1. years
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  3. brain
  4. cells
  5. replay
  6. centers

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But there's another mechanism that we've become aware of that helps cement those memories into the brain. And it's called replay. Several years ago, scientists were looking at how rats learned as they would run around a maze. And they were recording the activity in the memory centers of these rats. And as the rat was running around the maze, different brain cells would code different parts of the maze. And so if you added a tone to each one of the brain cells what you would hear as the rat was starting to learn the maze was the signature of that memory. So it would sound a little bit like ...

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