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August 11, 2015

A team of investigators will develop an algorithm that may help predict what people will remember.

A multidisciplinary team of investigators in cognitive science, neuroscience and computer vision will examine how visual memories are encoded in the human brain at milliseconds and millimeters-resolution. The work may help predict what people remember when they see an image or an event.

Credit: Aude Oliva, MIT


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