The basic issues are: is development continuous or discontinous stages does everyone grow up the same or is it based on context is development determiend by nature vs nurture or plasticity?
Personally, i believe that all of these issues are important to be adressed when we're talking about a certain development, with only one additional issue That issue would be: Is the development good or bad ?' Addressing this issue will make us know whther to make an effor to stop the development or just let it be.
The hippocampus is part of the limbic system, and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation. The hippocampus is located under the cerebral cortex in the allocortex, and in primates it is in the medial temporal lobe.