Hippocampus
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Olfactory Signals Reach Brain Emotion and Memory Centers Faster Than Other Senses
“Your brain sends neurons out of your skull into the top of your nose, and your brain is literally touching the world when you smell something. And the number of steps it takes for that information to get to your centers of memory and your centers of emotion is…”
Brooks: Episodic Memories Are Reassembled De Novo Every Time They Are Recalled
“The episodic memories are actually stored in the hippocampus of the brain and you reassemble them de novo every time you think about it and you reassemble them in a different way with new knowledge.”
Tversky: Hippocampal grid cells map conceptual and social spaces, not just locations
“And later work, work that came quite a bit later, beautiful work, showed that place, the single cells in hippocampus, also in cold people, Events in time, conceptual relations, and that grid cells map them in temporal space, conceptual space, social spaces.”