Brain Shapes Day-to-Day Memories

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Study reveals how the brain divides days into 'movie scenes'

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Study: Brain creates boundaries around daily events, essentially changing from one "scene" to another.

The leading theory has been that these boundaries are raised by a major change in the environment, such as when you walk into a movie theater or enter a grocery store, going from outside to inside.

Another hypothesis suggests that our own past experiences and feelings about certain events or environments create boundaries.

She is currently a project scientist in the orthopedic surgery department at UCLA where she works on identifying mutations and possible treatments for rare genetic musculoskeletal disorders. Jen enjoys teaching and communicating complex scientific concepts to a wide audience and is a freelance writer for multiple online publications..

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