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Study Finds Brain Hub That Links Music, Memory and Emotion

Caption: When people are familiar with a tune, their brains show increased activity in the regions shaded in green in this fMRI image. Red areas respond to salient autobiographical memories, and blue areas respond to tunes that a person enjoys. The brain region known as the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex responds both to familiarity and autobiographical associations (yellow).

Credit: Petr Janata/UC Davis

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