The implicit memory is coded into the limbic system, and the resonance gets activated.
What we do know is that when people are attracted to each other there are mutual neural patterns activated in the limbic system - literally, our brains light up.
But what you may not know is your limbic system may be trying to detect whom you will love, and who will love you back.
She does not recall anything earlier because her hippocampus, part of the limbic system deep in the brain that stores long-term memories, had not yet matured.
Initially, genital touching fires up a region of the sensory cortex but signals quickly spread to the limbic system, an area linked to emotion, behaviour and long-term memory.
The film shows how activity sparks off in the sensory cortex - in the specific area related to the genitals. But it spreads quickly through the limbic system, involved in emotions and memory.
