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Brain’s hippocampus is essential structure for all aspects of recognition memory, researchers find

November 4, 2015 by

The hippocampus, a brain structure known to play a role in memory and spatial navigation, is essential to one’s ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people – a phenomenon known as recognition memory – according to new research.

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