Professor Howard Eichenbaum describes the importance of single-cell recordings to memory research.

Single-cell recordings provide one of the major avenues or approaches by which we learn how the brain represents information. So it’s generally thought that information is represented in the brain by groups of neurons called ‘ensembles,’ which encode in specific bits of information about any given stimulus or experience we have. Its those groups of bits of information which compose our representation of experience in our minds. We have the technology, the capacity, to record from single cells, often even many cells at the same time which gives us the ability to get a glimpse of the structure of representations in the head.

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