Assertion: hippocampus | /r/CapableOf | play critical role
Facets:
value: in memory formation
type: TEMPORAL
value: in linking related memories
type: OTHER
value: by providing the brain
type: MANNER
value: in episodic memory
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
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.