Word: hippocampi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most researchers agree that the limbic, or feeling brain plays a key role in long-term memory. The limbic system is concerned with affects-strong emotional experiences, for example-which people obviously remember. One part of the limbic system, the hippocampus, is indisputably vital to memory. Patients whose hippocampi have been destroyed or partially removed cannot recall new information. Dr. Robert Livingston of the University of California at San Diego postulates that the structure plays the same role in memory as the "now store" button does on a computer, determining whether a particular bit of information is to be stored...
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