what part of the brain controls memory

In 1957, an epilepsy patients undergoing surgery, the removal of the lesion sites - the hippocampus, the result is the forgetful symptoms.Only to find the important role of the hippocampus to memory.People's memories of five types,now to learn about the relationship between memory type:

  1. Episodic memory
  2. Short-term memory
  3. Semantic memory
  4. Trigger memory
  5. Procedural memory
    Class more by the more primitive life to maintain the relative importance of memory.Class higher up, the higher the degree of memory content. This class is a good demonstration of the process of of evolution.Hippocampus and episodic memory, semantic memory there is a close relationship,recent studies have shown that short-term memory and priming memory management by the cerebral cortex,rrocedural memory is mainly controlled by the striatum (located in the cerebral cortex, the inside of the basal ganglia) and cerebellum. Have a particularly close relationship with the athletic ability (a) procedural memory, and cerebellum.


    Now largely been confirmed by the hippocampus is only temporarily retained a place of memory, memory eventually stored in the hippocampus. Hippocampus lifetime of the memory the longest, but also about l month.


    Last, I think, that the hippocampus is the most important parts of the brain memory control。

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