Assertion: hippocampus | /r/CapableOf | play crucial role
Facets:
value: in the normal formation
type: TEMPORAL
value: in long-term storage
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: While it is not the primary store of human memory, the hippocampus plays a crucial role in the consolidation of memories in extensive regions of the cortex.
text: Although most researchers agree that the hippocampus plays a crucial role in the normal formation and long-term storage (or transfer to long-term storage) of explicit memories, the exact nature of its role has been the subject of intense debate.
text: The hippocampus plays a crucial role in the formation of new declarative memories, and it has been theorized that the reason human infants cannot form declarative memories is because they are still undergoing extensive neurogenesis in the hippocampus and their memory-generating circuits are immature.