Striking moments make previous memories stronger

Chenyang (Leo) Lin grew up in a coastal city in southern China, far from any woods. So, when he went on a hike in New Hampshire last year, he was awed by the large trees and darting squirrels. “That was very new to me,” says Lin, a brain and behavior expert at Boston University.  

That hike is now crystallized in Lin’s memory. So, oddly, are the more familiar chickens he saw en route to the hike.

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