Photography - memories, The Hippocampus

The Hippocampus is important in the formation of new memories about experienced events (autobiographical memory) & novel events (memories that can be explicitly verbalised, these include memory for facts in addition to episodic memory)

If the Hippocampus was taken out of your brain right now, you would be stuck in time and memories of new experiences which would rapidly fade away. The hippocampus functions to create a seamless story of self.

'A photo is information about past light that we can perceive in present light'