Psychologist, University of Toronto (deceased)
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Died September 2023; his 1972 theory is now being challenged
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
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