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1Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|February 24, 2026
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Episodic memory is thought to be a uniquely human ability, but a new study shows that rats can mentally travel back in time at least 30 minutes to retrieve a memory from the context in which it occurred.
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