When an important document lands on your desk, you might file it away for safekeeping. The same thing happens with our memories: they first appear in one part of the brain and then move to another for long-term storage in a process known as.
When you receive an important file to work on, you keep it safe to remember about it. Similarly, our memories first land in one part of our brain and then shift to another for long-term storage. This process is known as memory consolidation. Kyoto University's Akihiro Goto researched this process using mouse brains in order to manipulate memories.