"The hippocampus stores short-term memories, while the prefrontal cortex is our long-term memory bank." This statement runs contrary to all the current concept

"The hippocampus stores short-term memories, while the prefrontal cortex is our long-term memory bank." This statement runs contrary to all the current concepts of information storage in the brain. The hippocampus is where long term memories are stored, the prefrontal cortex is involved in working memory, planning and evaluating action outcomes and a bunch of other things we have barely figured out.