Brain mechanism that connects the past and present discovered

AI brain UCL researchers have uncovered the process in the brain that supports our understanding of ongoing experiences. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, has found that daily experiences require us to process a continuous stream of information. This is shown when watching a movie, as although the film is continuous, our brains break it down into discrete events, such as scenes. To comprehend each scene, we rely on our ability to interpret it in light of relevant past scenes. For example, when confronted with the final scene of a murder mystery, we interpret the identity of the culprit based on the clues presented in earlier scenes. The researchers wanted to investigate how our brains form links between the present experience and relevant past events. Their findings propose that our brains accomplish this through a neural phenomenon termed "replay".