Jack’s hippocampus is bigger than yours

Aging and the Brain, Autism Origins, Treatments, Brain Fitness, Brain Trauma, Injury, Childhood Learning, Cognitive Impairment in Children, Cognitive impairments, Language Development, Reading and Dyslexia, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia

My dog Jack, thinking, has a proportionally larger hippocampus than you do. If I had a pet bunny, its hippocampus would be (proportionally) larger, still!! You’ve probably heard a lot about the crucial role that the hippocampus plays in recording our “episodic” (historic, serial, ‘long-term’) memories. Does this mean that we should revise that age…