Assertion: vertebral column's function | /r/HasProperty | to move short-term memories
Facets:
value: in the temporal lobe
type: LOCATION
value: to long-term memory
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Because patient HM had only lost his medial temporal lobe—and lost very little of his previous memories, and did not lose the ability to form new short-term memories—it was concluded that the function of the hippocampus, and adjacent structures in the medial temporal lobe, is to move (or consolidate) short-term memories (in the pre-frontal lobe) to long-term memory (in the temporal lobe).