An alternative hypothesis suggests that the circuit is specialized to store episodic memories, but also encodes spatial memory because location is one aspect of many episodic memories.

It was reproducible in an independent dataset and specific to creativity when compared with random gray matter coordinates or coordinates activated by working memory tasks. The circuit aligned ...

Led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the work found that a circuit known to carry messages from a brain region that processes sensory information, the entorhinal cortex (EC), to ...