Some specialists consider a memory to be a combination of different parts of the brain working together. Neurobiologists Malin and McGaugh at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at University of California, Irvine, have come to the following conclusion: “The hippocampus, a part of the limbic system located in the basal medial part of the temporal lobe, is responsible for processing memory for context. The anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex connected with the prefrontal cortex, is involved in retaining unpleasant memories. Finally, the amygdala, an almond-shaped subcortical region in the medial temporal lobe, binds memories together and initiates the storage of both contextual and unpleasant information.”
