The hippocampus is a critical structure for encoding of novel experiences. A particularly compelling puzzle is how the hippocampus encodes new information in the presence of interference from past memories.  Now a study from researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) have identified an important mechanism with which memory switches from recall to new-memory mode.  The team state … Continue reading Neuroimaging shows how the brain switches from past to present memory mode.