How do we store visual memory and in what regions in the brain?
How do we retrieve the information?
(Places, faces, animals, houses, colors).
Here's part of the answer: We store visual memories of individual items in the perirhinal cortex, and of the arrangements of those items in the hippocampus. We also retrieve the memories from those areas of the brain.
These phenomena are explained on web pages of Bristol University, here and here.
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considering this is your thing and I question why your asking, I will tell you briefly what I know.
The limbic system runs the short/long term memory whether it is spacial, emotional, visual etc. As far as our visual memory the hippocampal gyrus which surrounds the hippocampus is in charge of memory recognition or visual images, but basically the hippocampus. Memory stores in short term until it's time to move to long term unless the process gets interruppted and then it basically goes away. Forgetfullness means a thought never made it to long term memory and therefore cannot be retrieved and thus we have short term memory loss.
I have horrific short term memory loss so I hope I made sense if not there's always Wikipedia!
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