Our recollections are filled with detail: we can vividly recall the color of our house, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. Neuroscientists have long been baffled as to how the brain encodes this information. In a new Dartmouth study, researchers discovered a neural coding process that permits information to be transferred between perceptual and memory regions of the brain. The findings are reported in Nature Neuroscience. Prior to this discovery, the standard theory of brain organization was that perceptual parts of the brain represent the world "as it is," whereas the brain's visual cortex