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- Scientists study patterns in brain electrical waves.
- The waves change when people try to remember items.
- Patients were in hospital before brain surgery began.
- Patients performed different memory tasks during their stay.
- One task asked them to remember object places.
- Another task had people memorize letter sequences to recall.
- Different people showed different wave shapes for tasks.
- Some waves moved in lines and some in spirals.
- Wave patterns allowed researchers to guess the task.
- Researchers tracked how waves related to memory performance.
Difficult words
- scientist — a person who studies nature or scienceScientists
- pattern — a repeated design or regular arrangementpatterns
- electrical — about electricity or electric signals in the body
- patient — a person in a hospital or clinicPatients
- memory — the ability to keep and use past information
- spiral — a curve that turns around like a circlespirals
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever done a memory task?
- Have you ever been in a hospital?
- Do you like games that test memory?
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