The hippocampus is the "aware" part of the brain, it's a kind of short memory (from 1 second to some months). There, events can be memorised very fast, no repetition needed, to save information. Only important information will be stored here. So, the question now is:
What are important informations?
All sensoric and motoric events, which are related to a changement in the emotional arousal level. The emotional arousal is directly linked to the needs of the organism.
Those needs are:
- fundamental needs: energy, protection, selfreproduction
- informational needs: avoid uncertainty
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