Word: engrams
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...Maybe, Gould speculates, the newly generated hippocampal neurons are especially agile in forming connections with one another. As in the canaries, the new cells would readily join hands to encode a new memory. Then, when they were no longer needed, they would be flushed from the system, and the engram would be transferred elsewhere for safekeeping...