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Mark A Orloff1, Erie D Boorman2
1Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis, 267 Cousteau Place, Davis, CA 95618, USA.
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In this issue of Neuron, Xiao, Wang, Zhang, et al.1 show that the brain is hard at work-especially during rest-integrating separate experiences into a cognitive map, aiding novel decision-making. Using human intracranial recordings, they show that hippocampal ripples during rest predict improved learning, cognitive map formation, and inference.
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