Hippocampus

• Locations

  • Temporal Lobe
• Type of LTM

  • Explicit
• Damage

  • Inability to transfer new memories to LTM, unable to form new memories after damages has occurred
• Role

  • Encodes consolidates and helps retrieve explicit memories 
  • Transfers newly encoded explicit memories to relecent parts of brian for permanent long-term storage 
  • Interacts with amygdala to link emotions to explicit memories