Hippocampus of brain stores the time and place of memories

For the first time, scientists have seen evidence of where the brain records the time and place of real-life memories. The left anterior of the hippocampus aren't the totality of the memories, but just the broad picture of where and when it occurred and also it helped to "fine-tune" the time and place. "What we're picking up here is not the whole memory, but the basic gist the where and when of the experience," said Per Sederberg, senior author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State."This could be viewed as the memory hub, where we have these general, large-scale representations of our experiences."

Ref: Dylan M. Nielson, 2015, PNAS

DOI:10.1073/pnas.1507104112

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