Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Temporal binding

The hippocampus is a brain structure that plays a major role in the process of memory formation. It is not entirely clear how the hippocampus manages to string together events that are part of the same experience but are separated in time. Newly published research finds that there are neurons in the hippocampus that encode the sequence of events that make up experience [link] and [link].

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