Transcription of Hippocampus - Rice University
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Hippocampus1 Hippocampus Brain: Hippocampus The Hippocampus is located in the medial temporal lobe of the brain. In this lateral view of the human brain, the frontal lobe is at left,the occipital lobe at right, and the temporal and parietal lobes have largely been removed to reveal the Hippocampus [1]MeSHHippocampus [2]NeuroLex IDbirnlex_721 [3]The Hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other mammals. It belongs to the limbicsystem and plays important roles in long-term memory and spatial navigation. Like the cerebral cortex, with which itis closely associated, it is a paired structure, with mirror-image halves in the left and right sides of the brain.
cognitive skills (playing a musical instrument, or solving certain types of puzzles, for example). This fact suggests that such abilities depend on different types of memory (procedural memory) and different brain regions. Furthermore, amnesic patients frequently show "implicit" memory for experiences even in the absence of conscious knowledge.
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