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Memory Is Not Confined to Our Brains, Scientists Discover

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New York University researchers have discovered learning through repetition may be fundamental to all of our cells.

Multiple cycles of chemical activity through a repeated behavior is what triggers the memory-formation process.

This phenomenon is called the massed-spaced effect and is highly conserved in all animals at both the cellular and behavioral levels.