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·May 18, 2025·4 min read

How Music Can Emotionally Reshape Your Memories

A new neuroscience study reveals that music can alter the emotional content of our memories when played during recollection. Participants who listened to emotionally charged music while recalling neutral stories later remembered those stories with emotional tones matching the music.

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·May 31, 2025·4 min read

How Personality Shapes Emotional Intimacy

While neuroticism is strongly associated with lower relationship satisfaction, the behavioral mechanisms driving this link have remained unclear. In a week-long daily diary study involving 246 participants, researchers identified specific negative and positive behaviors in romantic relationships.

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·July 26, 2025·6 min read

How the Brain Reactivates Emotional Experiences

A new study using direct recordings from human brains reveals how the amygdala and hippocampus coordinate to form and retrieve emotional memories. During aversive memory encoding, high-frequency gamma activity in the amygdala shapes hippocampal responses, which are later reactivated in the hippocampus—but not the amygdala—during memory recall.

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·July 17, 2025·7 min read

How the Brain Selects Between Perception and Memory

The brain constantly toggles between focusing on external sensory information and internal mental representations like memories, plans, and thoughts. This seamless switching is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood.

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·August 28, 2025·5 min read

How the Brain Weighs Risks

A new study shows that the brain uses two distinct mechanisms to drive exploration under uncertainty. Recording single-neuron activity during a learning task, researchers found that amygdala and temporal cortex neurons modulate their firing before exploration in both gain and loss situations.

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·February 28, 2017·6 min read

How Your Brain Makes An Article Go Viral

A new study investigates how our brains decide which news articles to read and share. Brain scans also help predict large scale virality of some posts.

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·November 6, 2017·5 min read

Howard Eichenbaum, PhD – Superhero in a Sweater Vest

Loren DeVito pays tribute to her dear friend and mentor, the leading memory researcher, Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, who recently passed away.

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·July 22, 2025·6 min read

Hunger Sharpens Sleep Rhythms That Solidify Memories

New research shows that the brain’s slow oscillations and sleep spindles — key rhythms that consolidate memories during sleep — can be shaped by more than just age. While these rhythms have long been thought of as stable traits, studies reveal that metabolic state, like fasting before sleep, can enhance their timing and co-occurrence.

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·July 23, 2025·7 min read

Inflammation Influences Cannabis’s Effects on Anxiety and Sleep

A new study shows that inflammation levels influence how cannabis affects anxiety and sleep quality. Researchers found no overall change in inflammatory markers after 4 weeks of cannabis use, but baseline inflammation moderated outcomes.

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·August 3, 2010·2 min read

Memories With Emotional Content Form Even When Amygdala Is Damaged

A new study from researchers at UCLA indicates that new memories with emotional content can be formed even if the amygdala is damaged. Researchers believe that other areas compensated for the damaged amygdala, and aided learning and memory.

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·March 26, 2026·7 min read

Meta’s TRIBE AI: A New Foundation Model Decoding Human Brain Activity

Meta AI introduces TRIBE, a transformative foundation model that predicts human brain responses to vision and audition. By leveraging "in-silico" simulations, TRIBE offers a 70-fold increase in resolution, enabling researchers to decode neural patterns across different languages and individuals without new scans.

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·September 13, 2010·3 min read

Milwaukee Neuroscience Conference To Explore The Inner Workings Of The Brain

Leading neuroscience researchers will be attending a conference in Milwaukee this month. The conference will focus on obtaining better insights into the inner workings of the brain to better understand thinking, brain development and neurological diseases. Some key neuroscience presentations will include Neuropsychiatric Disorders, The Genetics of Brain Connectivity and The Mathematical Modeling of Brain Regions.