How native speakers pronounce “hippocampus”

based on the way our spatial memory works. There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years,

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where the friendly and enemy tribes live. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged.

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and they could still find their nuts. They weren't using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things.

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Right now these dates and names are being stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus. Normally when you go to sleep, memories like these are consolidated

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This consolidation occurs with the help of a major part of the brain, known as the hippocampus. Its role in long-term memory formation

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in her research with a patient known as H.M. After having his hippocampus removed, H.M.'s ability to form new short-term memories was damaged,

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but he was able to learn physical tasks through repetition. Due to the removal of his hippocampus, H.M.'s ability to form long-term memories was also damaged.

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What this case revealed, among other things, was that the hippocampus was specifically involved in the consolidation of long-term declarative memory,

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and temporarily recorded in the neurons as short-term memory. From there, it travels to the hippocampus, which strengthens and enhances the neurons in that cortical area.

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or even stress, will be better recorded due to the hippocampus' link with emotion. But one of the major factors contributing to memory consolidation is,

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have shown electrical impulses moving between the brainstem, hippocampus, thalamus, and cortex, which serve as relay stations of memory formation.

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declarative memory is encoded into a temporary store in the anterior part of the hippocampus. Through a continuing dialogue between the cortex and hippocampus,

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in the anterior part of the hippocampus. Through a continuing dialogue between the cortex and hippocampus, it is then repeatedly reactivated,

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