Meet Your Brain: The Hippocampus
The Hippocampus is a part of the emotional processing centre of the brain (the Limbic system). Hippocampus literally means ‘Sea Horse’ in classical Greek and it is so called because it looks quite uncannily like a sea horse. It has widely spread links to lots of other networks which make it a a really important centre for storing and retrieving conscious memories. The Hippocampus allows you to remember all those facts and figures you learnt at school, where you keep [...]