What Colour Is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz by Brian Clegg

Author:Brian Clegg [Clegg, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, General, Games & Activities, Trivia
ISBN: 9781785781230
Google: c96fDAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01I0KJC2I
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2016-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

QUESTION 3

Memory module

Why is the region of the brain that is involved with long-term memory storage and access called the hippocampus?

Answer overleaf

While you’re thinking …

The brain deals with a range of different memory types – for example, procedural memory, where we store our knowledge of how to do something without thinking about it (touch-typing, driving etc.), or short-term memory, which we use, for example, to remember a phone number between looking it up and dialling it.

Memory storage takes place across wide-reaching areas of the brain, but the hippocampus seems to be responsible for processing the long-term memories.

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