Research provides insights into how the hippocampus contributes to memory storage in the cortex
Research provides insights into how the hippocampus contributes to memory storage in the cortex Jul 27 2021 A new MIT study of how a mammalian brain remembers what it sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights critically depends on guidance from the hippocampus, a deeper structure strongly associated with memory but shrouded in mystery about exactly how. By suggesting that the hippocampus isn't needed for basic storage of images so much as identifying the chronological relationship they may have, the new research publ...