Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows how your brain tracks emotional transitions and adapts based on past feelings using music and brain imaging.

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A new discovery by McGill researchers sheds light on how we retain memories over time, even though brain activity is constantly changing. Published in Nature, the preclinical study found the brain's ...

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Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and attention are wired. The same circuitry that helps you recognize a friend’s ...