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Keep seeing people using the word “engram” to mean “the set of neurons active during memory encoding”.
Whereas I always thought the traditional definition of engram was something like “the set of physical changes in the brain that store the information underlining a memory”.
Which is it?
Of course the cells active during memory encoding may also have had components (eg synapses) modified to store memory information. But surely the cells themselves are not the engram??