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Science 24 August 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4101, pp. 764 - 767
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4101.764
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Equipotentiality Quantified: The Anatomical Distribution of the Engram

F. Bartlett 1 and E. R. John 1

1 Brain Research Laboratories, Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, New York 10029

Sensory events and the representation of past experience cause distinctive changes in the electrical activity of widespread regions of the brain. These regions have similar roles in the engram in the sense that they all seem to participate in responses to external events and in subsequent representations of these events. However, the relative contribution of these processes to the activity of different brain regions is quantitatively different, in that some regions are much more strongly affected than others. These results may constitute the basis for reconciliation of localizationist and antilocalizationist views of brain function.


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