Decoding Our Daily Surroundings: Insights from Brain Scans.

A new study has revealed the neural mechanisms behind how we process and memorize everyday events. Researchers used functional MRI scanners to monitor the brains of subjects watching short videos of scenes that could have come from real life. The study suggests that the brain makes mental sketches of people that can be transposed from one location to another, much like an animator can copy and paste a character into different scenes. The more one can bring neural patterns back online while describing an event, the better the overall memory.