Hippocampus: Tiny but mighty - Knox TN Today

Hippocampus: Tiny but mighty - Knox TN Today

The hippocampus (named after the Latin word for seahorse) is a small bundle of nerve cells found deep in the brain. It is responsible for short- and long-term memory, converting short-term memory to long-term memory, storing, organizing and retrieving memories, word memory-recall, and spatial memory (i.e. being aware of where you are and where you might be going). All of this came about because it was noted on brain MRI that London taxi drivers …