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To make a long story short, the hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory (short term) and spatial orientation, as is proven by Alzheimer patients, suffering from hippocampal lesions. It is also a part of the limbic system, therefore it's linked to emotions too. The region probably has to do with olfaction as well.

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