Recordings from people undergoing epilepsy monitoring reveal that certain amygdala neurons fire more strongly for images that participants later recognize.
Funding included the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, which supports tools and research for understanding brain activity.
About 40% of the recorded amygdala neurons met the study’s criteria for category selectivity.
Dig deeper into the amygdala and memory formation These studies connect recent human findings with foundational research on memory circuits and experimental stimulation.
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