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00:20 Saturday February 22, 2014

According to scientists took 300 milliseconds to form a memory

The memory is one of the most complex and elusive powers of the mind. However, two Argentine scientists working at the University of Leicester in Britain for the first time you put a number to the time it takes to form an remember . 300 milliseconds

work, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga signed by Hernán Rey, just published in Current Biology .

group Rodrigo Quian Quiroga is one of the few that manage a complex technique to record the electrical activity of a single neuron on the brain of human beings.

now able to associate the response from a type of neuron with a coordinated response circuitry nearby neurons.

The authors propose that the latter is the gateway to construct new concepts or retrieve those stored.

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