FIGURE 5.

Diagram that shows how information is transformed into a personal experience. Data about object identification and location is relayed to the hippocampus. The latter provides contextualisation: spatial, temporal (which transforms sequences of events into episodes), and semantic. The strong bidirectional connections with limbic structures help the latter to emotionally evaluate the contextualized situation; the emotional coloring adds affective contextualisation and enhances memorization by the hippocampus. The experience so personalized is reflected onto the peri-hippocampal cortices that relay it to higher level associative areas and can store it as a long-term memory of the comprehensive and personal vital experience.