title: Working smarter, not harder.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: John D E
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Gabrieli
authors.forename: Alison R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Preston
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*