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hippocampus
(redirected from Hippocampal region)

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hippocampus
fabulous marine creature; half fish, half horse. [Rom. Myth. and Art: Hall, 154]
See : Monsters

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Wagne found that the amount a person later remembered could be predicted by looking at activity in the brain's hippocampal region during learning.
Curious as to whether this phenomenon stems merely from the brain cells' being colder than normal, Frerichs and his colleagues removed slices of tissue from the hippocampal region of hibernating squirrels' brains.
 
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