Train Your Brain: How Your Brain Learns Best

Train Your Brain: How Your Brain Learns Best — page 5
Hanging out in the Hippocampus If the neurons and synaptic connections in your brain are the connections that help you to learn then in what part of your brain does learning take place Around 75 or three-quarters of all of your neural connections are in your brain’s cerebrum This large section of your brain includes the outer layer and many of the inner parts of your brain such as the hippocampus But if you’re looking to boost your learning and memory the other structure to explore is the hippocampus This is the structure involved with neurogenesis The larger the hippocampus the better people tend to be at remembering things As you get older it’s the first part of the brain that gets smaller but it can also grow and form connections even into adulthood The hippocampus is made up of two small seahorse-shaped structures 8 8