Why Do We Remember Selectively?

UCI Study Shows Vagus Nerve Holds The Answer

IRVINE, Calif., Posted 5:50 p.m. December 21, 1998 -- Scientists say they've figured out why we save some things in our memory better than others.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine credit a nerve that runs from your brain to the middle of your body, reports CBS 2 News. It's called the vagus nerve, and it responds to emotionally charged evnts such as weddings and deaths.

The findings appear in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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