I'll look into the why a group believes memories are associated with individual neurons as my personal intuition (edit: and this article as well) tells me the o

I'll look into the why a group believes memories are associated with individual neurons as my personal intuition (edit: and this article as well) tells me the opposite. For example, if I try to remember the name of an actor, I can have hints from my brain telling me "their name starts with an _m_" and "it's a man who played in a movie from the 90's", etc. A memory feels like it cannot be isolated, it always feels like a composition of different elements that, when put together, describe one thing, or many. The more elements (in that case maybe single neurons, or very small group of neurons) are activated the clearer the memory. A Venn diagram of sort where the overlap gets smaller and smaller. This would explain the "this makes me think of…" process, since a certain number of these elements from one memory will overlap with the elements of another one. This is completely personal and completely unscientific. And maybe this is neuroscience 101… In that case sorry for stating the obvious.