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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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The unified brain: how we remember

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Provided neuroimaging analysis for the study

For over fifty years, neuroscientists have treated remembering facts and recalling personal experiences as fundamentally different brain operations. A February 2026 study in Nature Human Behaviour found they were wrong. Researchers scanned 40 people performing carefully matched memory tasks and found no measurable difference in brain activity between the two types of recall.

Updated May 27