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Researchers have found that working memory and attention processes in the brain are key for cognition, which could be key to understanding brain injury.

Scientists at the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki used a combination of magneto and electroencephalography to measure how different areas of the brain interact with each other.

Human memory is based on the activity of neurons across a number of areas of the brain, according to the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The brain's frontal and parietal lobes were found to play a central role in working memory tasks and are responsible for attention and action, with findings showing synchronisation of neural activity these areas during memory processes.

Scientists believe that this enhanced understanding of the interaction of these function-specific areas of the brain will help to develop therapeutic.

Earlier this week, scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles found evidence of mirror neurons in the brain.

This is the first direct evidence of these mirror neurons, which are believed to be active when humans perform a particular action.

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