# What makes memories stronger?

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**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/what-makes-memories-stronger/2359 "2019-04-30T00:24:46Z")\
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> **[What makes memories stronger? Researchers shed new light on how the brain...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190429111840.htm)**
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> Scientists have found that highly demanding and rewarding experiences result in stronger memories. By studying navigation in rats, the researchers traced back the mechanism behind this selective memory enhancement to so-called replay processes in the...

  
Scientists have found that highly demanding and rewarding experiences result in stronger memories. By studying navigation in rats, the researchers traced back the mechanism behind this selective memory enhancement to so-called replay processes in the hippocampus, the memory-processing center of the brain.