'Have I been here before?'


	'Have I been here before?'

wildcat

6-8-2007 7:09 AM

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science, research, brain, mind, neurology, decision, nervous system, distinguish

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6-8-2007 11:23 PM

sl0wdjin

Another of those stories that folks gravitate to. I was about to ClipMark it earlier, but did a search in here and saw that I was not Daniel Boone and others had walked down this path before...

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"Have I been here before?"  In today's fast-moving world of look-alike hotel rooms and comparable corridors, it can take a bit of thinking to answer this simple question. University of Bristol neuroscientists working with colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report in the June 7 early online edition of <I>Science</I> that they have identified a neuronal mechanism that our brains may use to rapidly distinguish similar, yet distinct places</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://physorg.com/news100444183.html"> 
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