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engram

(n): a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory
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7 months ago John said:

“The idea that experience leaves some trace in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that ghostly trace a name: the engram.”

The New York Times, rain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory, by Benedict Carey, April 5, 2009

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