Word: hippocampus
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...central brain lies the limbic system (hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala), where the aggression seems to start. But there is a higher brain as well. If war originates as an impulse of the lower mind, then peace is an accomplishment of the higher, and the ascent from the brain's basement, where the crocodile lives, to the upper chambers may be the most impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain...
...IDENTIFIED. HIPPOCAMPUS DENISE, the world's smallest sea horse; in the Flores Sea off Indonesia. Just 16 millimeters in length, the tiny fish was earlier mistaken for a youngling of other types of sea horse. The species is named for photographer Denise Tackett, whose images first alerted scientists to the discovery...
...appears that the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for long-term memory, binds together pieces of experience into a unified memory trace,” said Anthony Wagner, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT who was the principle investigator of the study. “Later, when you get one bit of information, your brain retrieves all the details...
...tissue beneath the hippocampus, an area called the perirhinal cortex, appears to create and recall memories based on images rather than experiences...
...This helps explained why amnesiacs, who usually have damage to the hippocampus region, have deficits in recollection as opposed to item familiarity,” she said...