The hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory formation. However, it is not yet fully understood in what way that brain structure's individual regions are involved in the formation of memories.

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them.

Specifically, it appears that a particular part of the hippocampus stores memories relative to time over durations of at least a month and space over distances of up to 30 km (18.6 mi).

On September 1, 1953, H.M. underwent brain surgery, removing his hippocampus to cure his epilepsy. After the surgery, the epilepsy and seizures were gone, yet H.M. developed severe side effects.

For the first time, a study in rats teases apart the role of the hippocampus in two functions of memory – one that remembers associations between time, place and what one did, and another that allows ...

Bird and Burgess review the hippocampus's role in memory in light of a model of neuronal processing in which hippocampal activity constrains neocortical information to be perceivable from a single ...

The damage to patient H.M. brain encompasses more of the medial temporal lobe than the hippocampus alone. Also working memory is different from short term memory. psychmonkey ...

In each hippocampus’s CA3 area, humans have about 1.7 million nerve cells called pyramidal cells. This subregion is thought to be the most internally connected part of the brain in mammals ...

A patient known as H.M. undergoes surgery to remove his hippocampus, ... Hippocampus and memory. UC San Diego School of Medicine. By Science News. January 1, 1953 at 7:16 pm.

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes ...