{"id":124572,"date":"2021-07-03T20:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/time-cells-identified-in-our-brains-encode-the-flow-of-time-scientists-say"},"modified":"2021-07-03T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:23:59","slug":"time-cells-identified-in-our-brains-encode-the-flow-of-time-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/time-cells-identified-in-our-brains-encode-the-flow-of-time-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time Cells\u2019 Identified in Our Brains Encode The Flow of Time, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-cells-identified-in-our-brains-encode-the-flow-of-time-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does the human brain keep track of the order of events in a sequence?<\/p>\n<p>New research suggests that \u2018time cells\u2019 \u2013 neurons in the hippocampus thought to represent temporal information \u2013 could be the glue that sticks our memories together in the right sequence so that we can properly recall the correct order in which things happened.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence for these kinds of sequence-tracking time cells was <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/321\/5894\/1322\">previously found in rats<\/a>, where specific neuron assemblies are thought to support the recollection of events and the planning of action sequences \u2013 but less is known about how episodic memory is encoded in the human brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the human brain keep track of the order of events in a sequence? New research suggests that \u2018time cells\u2019 \u2013 neurons in the hippocampus thought to represent temporal information \u2013 could be the glue that sticks our memories together in the right sequence so that we can properly recall the correct order in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}