[RightWhale]

Just a guess, but they might be working way too high in the CNS. Lower down things are more mechanical. If they can create a bypass for a severed spinal cord, that would be something.

[CobaltBlue]

The thing about artifically enhancing memory is that it can be tested on animals -- mazes and whatnot.

Of course, human memory is probably a lot more subtle, but it doesn't reside in the hippocampus, does it? I studied this in neurology once but this is one of the things I forget.

Isn't memory stored in the cerebral cortex? So this is just a way to assist the part that processes the information.