Working smarter, not harder.
The ability to chunk, or to strategically organize, information is one of the most powerful ways people have to encode experience into memory. A functional brain imaging study by Bor and colleagues, in this issue of Neuron, provides evidence that prefrontal cortex contributes to this essential mnemonic process.
Gabrieli
John D E
JD
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Preston
Alison R
AR
D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*