Neuroanatomy of memory Neuroanatomy of memory The neuroanatomy of memory encompasses a wide variety of anatomical structures in the brain. The hippocampus is a structure in the brain that has been associated with various memory functions. It is part of the limbic system, and lies next to the medial temporal lobe. It is made up of two structures, the Ammon's Horn, and the Dentate gyrus, each containing different types of cells. There is evidence that the hippocampus contains cognitive maps in humans. In one study, single-cell recordings were taken from electrodes implanted in a rat's hippocampus, and it was found that certain neurons
Intermediate-term memory phase of long-term memory, respectively—thus demonstrating the presence of a form of memory that exists between working memory and long-term memory, which they referred to as "intermediate-term memory". Though the idea of intermediate-term memory has existed since the 1990s, Sutton "et al." introduced a novel theory for the neural correlates underlying intermediate-term memory in "Aplysia" in 2001, where they described it as the primary behavioral manifestation of intermediate-term facilitation. In 2001, Sutton and colleagues proposed that intermediate-term memory possesses the following three characteristics: Because intermediate-term memory does not involve transcription, it likely involves the translation of mRNA transcripts already present