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How patients with severe memory loss pictured a game they'd forgotten playing

After hours of Tetris, the video game where you fit falling blocks into rows, many players close their eyes and still see blocks dropping.

In 2000, Harvard scientists tested this with patients whose brain damage left them unable to remember playing.

Falling asleep, some described little shapes falling and turning, with no idea where the pictures came from. The study suggests part of the brain was replaying a game they couldn't remember.

Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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