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Memory, “a complex game between the present and the future, fueled by the past”

October 6, 2025

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For this pioneer of brain imaging, who during an exceptional career has seen knowledge in the field explode, memory, far from being a simple store of memories, is constantly guided by the future.

Francis Eustache

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This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°223 dated October/December 2025.

Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) since 2001, Francis Eustache taught at the University of Caen-Normandie where he directed the Neuropsychology and Imaging of Human Memory research unit. He was also director of the Cyceron Center for Imaging and Research in Neuroscience from 2012 to 2016.

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