Definitions for keeled. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word keeled. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: ridged, carinate, carinated, keeled(adj) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship. a carinate sepal.
The amygdala and hippocampus are part of the limbic system and play a major role in our memory. The amygdala determines what memories are stored and where they are stored while the hippocampus is responsible for sending out memories to the appropriate areas of our brain for long term storage. The hippocampus retrieves the appropriate memories when it is necessary.
Deadwyler and co-investigator Robert Hampson, Ph.D., showed that the hippocampus, a structure long believed to be important for short-term memory, shares this function with another adjacent brain area, the subiculum.