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RJ Mackenzie

'Time travel' memory hack rejuvenates memories, study finds

An illustration of a human brain made up of clock gears.

Half-forgotten memories can be resurrected using "mental time travel," a new study suggests.

The research, published Monday (July 28) in the journal PNAS, showed that a person can rejuvenate their fading memories by recalling the emotions and thoughts they had when they first stored that memory. In fact, the researchers found that the refurbished memories were then almost as retrievable as newly formed memories.

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