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We Thought We Understood How Memories Work; We Might Be Wrong

New research overturns 50 years of thinking that the hippocampus is the primary site of short-term memory. Players in memory include the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala and the temporal lobe.

We Thought We Understood How Memories Work; We Might Be Wrong
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[DIGEST: PBS, Science, Science, Science, JAlzheimer's, NeurobioAging, SciRep]

There are two types of memory: short term memory and long term memory, right?  Short term memory includes things like the phone call we just finished, what we had for breakfast, and who is picking up the kids today.  Long-term memory is the face of our best friend from third grade, whether we paid our taxes on time last year, or the names of the bones in the human body from high school biology class.

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