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« Business Insider embarasses itself for Jeff Bezos | Main | Turns out Zuckuss was just really polite » What I'm Hearing is I Should Be Taking More NapsWhen we rest, a brain region called the hippocampus becomes active, replaying recent events to transfer them from short- to long-term memory. During rest after the social task, the mPFC connected with the hippocampus, providing support for the idea these social regions have an important memory function. "One of the main reasons--or adaptive potentials--to take breaks, even short breaks throughout our day-to-day life, is to help us retain information longer and transfer it into long-term memory," Andrews-Hanna notes. "The Meyer study is the first to extend these findings to social information and our memory of other people." By min | May 24, 2018, 12:07 PM | Science |