hOW DO WE REMEMBER THINGS????

Question: hOW DO WE REMEMBER THINGS????

Asked by 06ad00 to Martin on 24 Mar 2010 in Categories: General.
- Martin Coath answered on 24 Mar 2010:
  
  Sorry – what was the question! 😀
  
  No – seriously nobody knows for certain how it all works. We know a particular part of the brain called the hippocampus is very important.
  
  Yes – I am back now. The whole brain is involved in memory but research on long term memory does centre on the “hippocampus” – which means “seahorse” because it is curved like the body of a seahorse.
  
  This is deep within your brain and you have two of them – one either side. We know these are closely involved in memory but I am afraid that exactly HOW this works is still being worked out!

Question: hOW DO WE REMEMBER THINGS????