Hippocampus Required (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Hippocampus Required

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The hippocampus plays a vital role in enhancing memory in those who are actively engaged in learning something new. It coordinates with other brain structures to accomplish different tasks, such as recognizing an object one has seen before or remembering its original location.

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Graphic by Diana Yates. Brain by Andrew Giglio.

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Image may be used only with stories about the research described in the news release. Please credit: Graphic by Diana Yates. Brain by Andrew Giglio.

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