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Science & ResearchSep 5, 2026

Reading specific memories from human neurons before and after sleep

The ability to retrieve a single episode encountered just once is a hallmark of human intelligence and episodic memory[1].

The ability to retrieve a single episode encountered just once is a hallmark of human intelligence and episodic memory[1]. Yet, decoding a specific memory from neuronal activity in the human brain remains a formidable challenge. Here, we develop a transformer neural network…

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