Hippocampus

[Alexander R Terrill]

Quick question: 

Does anyone know what the role of the hippocampus in human memory?  As
far as I can tell it somehow seems to make the conversion form STM to
LTM.  Do we know how it does this, or why?

Thanks in advance...

Alex 

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                          Alexander R. Terrill
Carnegie-Mellon University   --wix at cmu.edu--   Cognitive Science & Biology
                     http://www.psc.edu/~terrill/
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