Parietal Memory Network (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Parietal Memory Network

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The Parietal Memory Network, a newly discovered memory and learning network shows consistent patterns of activation and deactivation in three distinct regions of the parietal cortex in the brain's left hemisphere -- the precuneus, the mid-cingulate cortex and the dorsal angular gyrus.

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WUSTL Graphic / Adrian W. Gilmore (Image adapted from <a target="_blank"href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_stem_normal_human.svg">Creative Commons original</a> by Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe, MD, cardiologist.)

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