Our organ, through which we can think, experience emotions and collect memories. braincontinues to harbor great mysteries. This time, the brain, which scientists make a new discovery every day, more detailed than ever before.

Scientists from the University of Sydney have discovered that the hippocampal part of the brain plays the role of memory and navigation. communication network revealed. The resulting map describes the ensembles of neurons in the nervous system. pathways formed by white matter showed.

The most detailed map of the brain:

The image we saw above was a map of brain regions that the scientists believe are directly connected to the hippocampus and play an important role in memory formation. Card, Another surprising result regarding the hippocampus is: revealed.

On the map, the hippocampus makes the decision of the brain, have fewer connections to regions in the frontal lobe that work on memory and evaluation tasks. orphan. Most connections were between regions where visual information was processed.

While this was considered “surprising,” especially given the role of the hippocampus, it wasn’t surprising at all. At the beginning of the study, Dr. Marshall Dalton explained this situation as follows:

“This makes sense given that the hippocampus plays an important role not only in memory, but also in our imagination and the ability to form mental images in our mind’s eye.”

While the hippocampus helps us find direction, in this process, while imagining an area that we record in our memory, It also allows us to create images in our mind. So when you think of a place you’ve been before, the hippocampus also comes into play.

So how was this map made?

To create the map, scientists led by the US National Institutes of Health have “Human Connectome Projectbenefited from MRI scans of many brains collected under the This data was processed with methods specially developed for research and the links between all brain regions were revealed.

The map created is expected to help against health problems that affect memory, such as Alzheimer’s disease.