HIPPOCAMPUS
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1551 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, General information |
One of two ridges along each lateral ventricle of the brain .
Hippocampus is a part of the limbic system, which is the seat of emotions and manages them. It is essential for the creation of long-term memory through the establishment of so-called mental maps . It has been observed that the taxi-drivers in a great city have a a particular development of the hippocampus. On the contrary, damage to the hippocampus leads to considerable spatial desorientation. It also impairs the acquisition of short-term memory .
It seems moreover that the passage from short-term to long-term memory is obtained by “replays” by the hippocampus (also during sleep) that finally “etch” the lived experiences deeper into the cortex (Rita CARTER , 1998)
The hippocampus is the bio-physiological structure basically responsable for the implicit memory, called “retention” by HUSSERL, that allows us to understand as integrated whole a sonata, for instance, or any other phenomenon extended in time .
See also
Brain (Triune)