Mark Wieczorek

Some people believe that dreams are the brain re-organizing memories during sleep.

“It’s quite surprising,” said Brown’s Mayank Mehta, an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, who led the research. “We’ve known for a century that the hippocampus and the neocortex are anatomically connected. But this is the first time we’ve seen the effect of this connectivity in the brains of live animals. The dialogue is quite unexpected and complex, suggesting that this ’simple’ brain circuit is much more sophisticated than we imagined.”

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