How does brain recognize new places

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The survival of human beings is mainly dependent on the ability to think.But whenever we visit a new place how does our brain know??
Our brain is made of billions of neurons which are connected to each other.A group of MIT researchers found out that our brain indeed creates a new location for storing new memories. 


Our brain can process new images just within 13 milliseconds. 

Fascinating right??

The amount of Time our brain takes to process new things is very less.MIT  neuroscientists found that whenever our eyes see a new location, our visual receptors send that information like shape, colour, size while the brain thinks and arranges them to form something meaningful.A small region of  brainstem called locus coeruleus is activated by novel sensory stimuli leading to dopamine flow and
 BANG!!
new memory location is created.

The study is interesting as it would open up new areas where our brain's function is still unclear.Studies suggested that our brain uses CA3 which is responsible for forming new memories for novel locations.Our brain stores the events that harm us more than those events in which you had fun.This is due to the fact that brain wants to protect you from the same problems  again.

But one of important mysteries of this research is how does locus coeruleus finds that the environment is new?? Neuroscientists hypothesize that brain has the ability to compare new environment with old ones.

Do you think this can be the valid reason or do we need to use our brain even furthur to study its abilities.

Please let us know in comment section.

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