Assertion: hippocampus's role | /r/HasProperty | critical
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text: The hippocampus plays a critical role in episodic memory, our capacity for the recollection of unique personal experiences; and the hippocampus is involved in particular aspects of the acquisition of semantic or factual knowledge.
text: The results on the transitive inference paradigm indicate that the hippocampus plays a critical role in linking related memories according to their common features, and this linkage results in a network that can support inferences between items in memory that are only indirectly related.
text: These findings indicate that the hippocampus plays a critical role in memory formation for a broad domain of information in humans.
text: Furthermore, the discovery of place cells, head direction cells, and grid cells in the rodent hippocampal formation established a firm foundation for the notion that the hippocampus plays a critical role in memory formation by providing the brain with a spatiotemporal framework within which the various sensory, emotional, and cognitive components of an experience are bound together.
text: Here, it is proposed that the hippocampus plays a critical role, when distinct personal experiences must be encoded in relation to one another and linked within an organization that supports flexible, inferential memory expression.
text: Our study not only reproduced the results that higher self-esteem was associated with better physical health, but also showed that the hippocampus mediated the link between self-esteem and physical health, suggesting its critical role in the neural circuit through which self-esteem is related to physical health.