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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: when researchers scanned 40 people performing carefully matched memory tasks, they found no measurable difference in brain activity between the two types of recall.

Updated Feb 7