Science seems to follow Science Fiction more and more often these days. One of the most recent examples of this is an experiment by at UC Davis in which researchers used beams of light to “switch off” the part of the hippocampus in the brains of genetically modified mice that relays memory from the cerebral cortex and allows the animal to picture the memory, or “relive” it–similar to the Neuralyzer used by the Men in Black to wipe memories from ordinary folk who had seen alien activity. Scientists have speculated that the hippocampus is very involved in memory retrieval, but this is the first direct evidence to support that hypothesis.
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