: either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves connecting the inner ear with the brain, transmitting impulses concerned with hearing and balance, and composed of the cochlear nerve and the vestibular nerveâcalled also acoustic nerve, auditory, eighth cranial nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve.
The hippocampus, Latin for seahorse, is named for its shape. It is part of a system that directs many bodily functions: the limbic system. This system is located in the brain's medial temporal lobe, near the center of the brain. The hippocampus is involved in the storage of long-term memory, which includes all past knowledge and experiences. Scientists are unsure exactly how this occurs.
1 Semantic memory is a part of the long-term memory responsible for storing information about the world. 2  This includes knowledge about the meaning of words, as well as general knowledge. 3  For example, London is the capital of England.ne of the earliest and most influential distinctions of long term memory was proposed by Tulving (1972). He proposed a distinction between episodic, semantic and procedural memory. 1  Procedural memory is a part of the long-term memory is responsible for knowing how to do things, i.e. memory of motor skills.