https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9y2LTg8nk

Hippocampus looks like a seahorse. Hippo is greek for horse, campo for eel.

Converts short-term memory into long-term memory. If the hippocampus is damaged, new experiences fade away, but old memories remain intact.

Long-term memory is spread throughout the Cerebral Cortex. When the Hippocampus experiences touching something hot, it replays that experience repeatedly into the Crebral Cortex until it becomes a long-term memory.

Learning is behavior modification based on new experiences. The Hippocampus “teaches” the Cerebral Cortex new memories which will modify future behavior.