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.

New research has demonstrated how odors evoke memories in the brain, in ways stronger than other senses. Using neuroimaging and intracranial electrophysiology the research shows how olfactory ...

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 ...

Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November ...

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 ...

This finding suggests that, with time, the hippocampus becomes less important for a given memory, and the frontal cortex more so. Lashley's theory of memory was not right, but neither was it ...

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 ...