![]() If you want to flex your hippocampus, subscribe to this Hippocampus… for stories you’ll remember. Stories that invite you to ponder and expand your understanding of our world and shared human experience – the perfect calisthenics for your own brain seahorse. This Hippocampus is a new platform designed to deliver stories that stimulate your mind muscles. Great news for London taxi drivers, crushing for those of us who’d get lost in a revolving door. Using MRI scans, Maguire’s study proved that hippocampi belonging to London taxi drivers are actually plumper – beefed up from all-day brain workouts. The hippocampus is one of a group of structures within the limbic system typically called the hippocampal formation, which includes the dentate gyrus. Armed with ‘The Knowledge’, they spend their days executing mental algorithms to deliver passengers from A to B with greatest economy.įor a Hippocampus, this is like pumping iron. The world’s blackbelts in navigation, London taxi drivers study for four years on average to memorise the city’s bewildering tangle of streets and long list of landmarks – this unparalleled mastery is known as ‘The Knowledge’. paleomammalian cortex) which is the collection. London taxi drivers demonstrated this theory, submitting their hippocampi for scrutiny by Neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire of University College London. Hippocampus (plural : hippocampi) is a ridge of gray matter of in the brain, considered to be a vital component of the human limbic system (i.e. Your ‘brain seahorse’ or hippocampus (with its name derived from the Greek words hippo for horse and kampos for sea) is responsible for memory and learning.īack in 2014 the hippocampus was the focus of a Nobel Prize awarded to three neuroscientists ‘for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain’, or in simple terms – how the hippocampus acts as a GPS for humans. It is a limbic system structure that is particularly. Its size belies its power, and without it you’d be lost. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that is involved in memory forming, organizing, and storing. The hippocampus is part of a larger structure of the temporal lobe called the hippocampal formation. It takes its name from the Greek word for the seahorse, because it resembles this small upright-swimming fish. Like its underwater doppelganger, it’s unassuming. The hippocampus is a paired structure present in each temporal lobe of the brain. ![]() In the rat it is proportionally larger and extends from near the top (dorsal surface) of the brain to the bottom (ventral surface) (see Fig. In humans, the hippocampus lies tucked within the cortex of the temporal lobe, near the bottom of the brain. Journey inward from your ear to the middle of your brain and you’ll find a fleshy little seahorse. In this chapter we focus on the hippocampusone of the brain regions removed in patient H.M. ![]()
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