The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
What it means is that you can take the same set of neurons in the hippocampus and stamp down many many more memories because all you have to do is use a match of the different rates of the different neurons that were firing in order to set that code right
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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meaning the particular neurons that fire is important and there's a rate code how quickly those neurons fire or the relative firing the timing of the firing of those neurons is also part of the memory.